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By Thomas P.M. Barnett
24 Nov 2009 |
World Politics Review
AUSTIN, Texas -- Official
representatives from the Tejas Confederation, the Northern Alliance of
Mexican States, and the U.S. government signed a comprehensive
treaty that will immediately "re-admit" the Tejas states
to the American union, and submit to Congress formal pleas for new
statehood on behalf of Baja
California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila and Nuevo Leon.
By Ian Bremmer and Alexander Kliment
24 Nov 2009 |
World Politics Review
When the Berlin Wall finally fell, a new set of certainties about the global political and
economic order was born. And none has been more pervasive or enduring
than the belief that the spread of markets and the advance of
globalization are irreversible, even inevitable. But 20 years later, there is reason to question our assumptions.
By Nikolas Gvosdev
24 Nov 2009 |
World Politics Review
In the euphoria that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall, we forget
that prior to 1989, the division of Europe into two blocs, East and
West, was seen as a permanent feature of the international order. America's
own security architecture throughout the Pacific Ocean basin may now be
based on similarly impermanent divisions in Asia.
By Walter Russell Mead
24 Nov 2009 |
World Politics Review
Anything that threatens the rise of Asia, the balance between its
superpowers or the links between Asia's rising power and its increasing
integration into the world system would shake our world to its
foundations. Unfortunately, the possibility is far from remote: We may
be headed toward just this kind of shock.
By Jacqueline Newmyer
24 Nov 2009 |
World Politics Review
Today, many American foreign affairs experts appear to assume that the
Chinese Communist Party will remain in power indefinitely. As a result, we
are collectively failing to consider how a political collapse in China
could create dynamics to which the United States would be compelled to
respond.