In the international arena, will “old-fashioned power plays” ever disappear? “Whether it is Russian forces seizing Crimea, China making aggressive claims in its coastal waters, Japan responding with an increasingly assertive strategy of its own, or Iran trying to use its alliances with Syria and Hezbollah to dominate the Middle East, old-fashioned power plays are back in international relations,” writes Foreign Affairs. “Westerners should never have expected old-fashioned geopolitics to go away.”
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:00:00 +0000
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