The Free World Teeters on the Edge of a Knife

Contrairement à la situation de la Guerre froide, c’est l’Occident qui se divise alors que les démocratures tendent à s’unir sous l’impulsion de la Chine pour présenter un front commun et construire un monde qui se revendique à la fois post-occidental et post-démocratique.

An American civil war, accompanied by a sudden implosion of global U.S. power, might usher in such ghastly scenarios as a multi-sided world war in which America itself is not a major participant.

It is too soon to say when or how this era will end or what will succeed it. But what is clear is that a good many of the trends are worrisome. If, for example, a Sino-American cold war materializes, it is quite possible this era may come to be known as the inter–Cold War era, one bookended by the U.S.-Soviet Cold War and one between the United Sta

One critical factor in determining the region’s future will be the role that the United States chooses to play going forward. As already noted, one reason for the region’s phenomenal success over the past seventy years is the presence of the United States. Yes, the United States badly overreached by trying to unite all of the Korean Peninsula by fo