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laodan discovered 11 months ago- Rising powers have the US in their sights
in AsiaTimes by Dilip Hiro the author of Secrets and Lies: Operation Iraqi Freedom and, most recently, Blood of the Earth: The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources, both published by Nation Books.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States stood tall - militarily invincible, economically unrivaled, diplomatically uncontestable. and the dominating force on information channels worldwide. The next century was to be the true "American century", with the rest of the world molding itself in the image of the sole superpower.
Yet with not even a decade of this century behind us, we are already witnessing the rise of a multipolar world in which new powers are challenging different aspects of US supremacy - Russia and China in the forefront, with regional powers Venezuela and Iran forming the second rank. These emergent powers are primed to erode US hegemony, not confront it, singly or jointly.
When viewed globally and in the great stretch of history, the notion of US exceptionalism that drove the neo-conservatives to proclaim the Project for the New American Century in the late 20th century - adopted so wholeheartedly by the Bush administration in this one - is nothing new. Other superpowers have been there before, and they too have witnessed the loss of their prime position to rising powers.
No superpower in modern times has maintained its supremacy for more than several generations. And however exceptional its leaders may have thought themselves, the United States, already clearly past its zenith, has no chance of becoming an exception to this age-old pattern of history.
Rising powers have the US in their sights
An excellent article on the presently transitioning geo-politics. To measure the importance of this geo-politic transitioning it has to be placed in the larger context of the peak resources (oil, Phosphorous) + the myriad of side-effects of modernity (- an economically globalized world in a largely non-globalized political context. - a societal atomization. - an uncontrolled growth of the human population. - a stark loss of diversification in term of living species. - an accelerating climate change. - the poisoning of land and water). When integrated in such a larger context the present transitioning of geo-politics indicates an increasing risk of conflicts erupting in the not so distant future. It is what emerges out of the interactions between geo-politics + peak resources + side-effects of modernity that shall decide sooner or later the fate of humanity.
- Rising powers have the US in their sights
