AFP: China, Russia tarred with US intel listing

Posted by Matt in September 15th, 2009 | no comment

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The United States fingered emerging superpower China and resurgent Russia as its main challengers on Tuesday in new intelligence guidelines that highlighted the rising scourge of cyber-war.
“A number of nation-states have the ability to challenge US interests in traditional and emerging ways,” said the 2009 National Intelligence Strategy (NIS) document.
“China shares many interests with the [...]

Pentagon War Games Predict Future Threats

Posted by Matt in June 5th, 2009 | no comment

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The military’s big thinkers plan for future needs by predicting potential security threats
By the Pentagon’s reckoning, the world in 2018 will be a grim place, with a considerable array of tricky national security threats facing the U.S. military. Multinational corporations, employing increasingly thuggish private security forces, begin to undermine the traditional power of nation-states. Countries [...]

A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-First Century

Posted by Matt in February 8th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Conflict, general, Australia Canada, Brief History, Carbon Dioxide In The Atmosphere, Centric World, Demographic Factors, Droughts, History Of The Future, Indonesia Korea, Massive Immigration, Nation States, Nomads, Rare Resource, Regional Powers, Retirements, Ruling Class, Sedentary Life, Southern Countries, Technological Factors, Urbanization, World Population

Fall of the US empire
The prospective part begins at the third chapter, which predicts the fall of the US Empire before the end of the ninth form of capitalism, estimated to take place around 2035.
It would be followed by a poly-centric world, with nine dominating nations on all continents: the USA, Brazil, Mexico, China, India, [...]

The Clash of Civilizations?

Posted by Matt in December 30th, 2008 | no comment

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This interesting article was written in 1993 by Samuel P. Huntington.
From the article:
WORLD POLITICS IS entering a new phase, and intellectuals have not hesitated to proliferate visions of what it will be — the end of history, the return of traditional rivalries between nation states, and the decline of the nation state from the conflicting [...]

How Europe can shape the global system

Posted by Matt in May 1st, 2008 | no comment

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The end of the unipolar moment, underlined by the American fiasco in Iraq and by the ascendancy of China, Brazil and India, raises again questions about the structure of the global system and how Europe fits within it.
After the end of the cold war and with the accelerating pace of globalisation, Europeans were inclined to [...]

Rearming the world

Posted by Matt in April 27th, 2008 | no comment

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Why nations are suddenly locked in an arms race unseen since the early days of the Cold War
But the exercise highlighted an alarming new reality. With much less fanfare than the early days of the Cold War, the world is entering a new arms race, and with it, a dangerous new web of military relationships. [...]

China Pursues ‘Manifest Destiny’ Through Mercantilism and Imperialism

Posted by Matt in January 3rd, 2008 | no comment

Published in Amazon.Com, China, Economy, Trade, Amazon Asin, beijing, Centuries, China, China Economic, China Trade, Economic Development Strategy, Europe, Focus, Hard Currency, Imperialism, Manifest Destiny, Mercantilism, Nation States, Philosophy, Political Economy, Trade Surpluses, United States

China’s economic development strategy has often been called a new version of mercantilism, the philosophy of political economy that built the great nation-states and empires of Europe in the 16th-19th centuries. Mercantilist features have been most prominent in Beijing’s drive for exports and a large reserve of hard currency. The focus has usually [...]