From London: Henry Kissinger: The world must forge a new order or retreat to chaos
...Even the most affluent countries will confront shrinking resources. Each will have to redefine its national priorities. An international order will emerge if a system of compatible priorities comes into being. It will fragment disastrously if the various priorities cannot be reconciled.
...The alternative to a new international order is chaos.
...The economic world has been globalised. Its institutions have a global reach and have operated by maxims that assumed a self-regulating global market. The financial collapse exposed the mirage. It made evident the absence of global institutions to cushion the shock and to reverse the trend.
...In the end, the political and economic systems can be harmonised in only one of two ways: by creating an international political regulatory system with the same reach as that of the economic world; or by shrinking the economic units to a size manageable by existing political structures, which is likely to lead to a new mercantilism, perhaps of regional units. A new Bretton Woods kind of global agreement is by far the preferable outcome.
...An international order can be permanent only if its participants have a share not only in building but also in securing it. In this manner, America and its potential partners have a unique opportunity to transform a moment of crisis into a vision of hope.
Editor's note:
Kissinger's international order is already testing the security model. The global Phoenix is already rising: New world shapes up off Somalia and China sails into new world order.
See more on the Rise of The Fourth Kingdom. See more on Henry Kissinger here.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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