[vinnomot] With a grain of piquant salt: Who's your daddy?

Recently, I had the privilege of attending an event, which had one of the highest concentrations of international relations intellectual horsepower that I have ever seen. The luminaries were discussing a very fundamental topic recently arising after the Iraq War fiasco, namely, “After the Unipolar Moment: How Fragile is the World Order?” As you know, the words hyperpower and unipolar world were used for the USA after the Soviet Union collapsed. But now Gulliver has been tied down and the limits of his power have been rather cruelly exposed. So what did the luminaries say and what do I think about this? Who is the world’s daddy then?

 

Continued on at: http://piquancy.blogspot.com/2007/11/whos-your-daddy.html

 

 

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Bhaskar Dasgupta

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