“Anyone who dislikes U.S. hegemony should bear in mind that, instead of a multipolar world of competing great powers, a world with no hegemon at all may be the real alternative to it. This could turn out to mean a new Dark Age of waning empires and religious fanaticism; of endemic rapine in the world's no-go zones; of economic stagnation and a retreat by civilization into a few fortified enclaves. “
http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/analysis/2004/0621endofpower.htm
Thank God the US 'rules' the world.
I was posting endlessly about the real danger of returning to a world of city-states a couple years ago - If we allow the terrorists to cow us, if the civilized world fails to effectively join together enough to defeat the barbarism of the terrorists - we will eventually withdraw into a world where we do business only with people we individually trust - into our own little world. We will return to the Dark Ages.
The article you linked is the first time I've seen anything like this in an analytical journal. Thanks for posting that.
Thanks for the link. Interesting article.
Great post.