Geopolitics: The Hegemon stumbles

Major errors of concept and execution in the Iraq war have weakened the US: a sharp lesson in the limits of what seemed like limitless power. Its allies have been discredited, its enemies strengthened. Its real or wannabe rivals, China and Russia, are new global power centres. Its sway in Latin America and Africa has been compromised. The new Asian regional powers must steer a careful course in a complex world.By Charles Dumas, Diana Choyleva and Gabriel Stein.

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Remember the hype at the euro’s launch in the late 1990s? This would be Europe’s moment, when the continent finally could face up to the US, economically and politically. Europe’s failure during the dissolution of Yugoslavia was conveniently forgotten. The hype went on. The Lisbon Process and the Stockholm Agenda, aimed at making “the EU the world’s most dynamic and competitive economy” by 2010, are now an even sicker joke than at the time.

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