“Our world, like that of the late nineteenth century, is one in - TopicsExpress

John Bailes

“Our world, like that of the late nineteenth century, is one in which great and medium-size powers jostle for power and resources. This is no postmodern order of the sort that some fancied was being built in Europe after World War II. It more closely resembles the world envisaged by the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648, which brought the Thirty Years War to an end, a world in which sovereign states pursue their own interests and, in some cases, imperial visions. Among its rivals-China, India, Germany, and Japan-the United States no longer figures as a superpower. With the worst public infrastructure in the advanced world, a disappearing middle class, a hlgher proportion of the population incarcerated than in any other country, and a government gridlocked by corporate power, America and its political system are seen as a model by no one outside the United States.” John Gray, Under Western Eyes, Harper’s Magazine, 01 2015

Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:58:38 +0000

“Our world, like that of the late nineteenth century, is one in - TopicsExpress

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