Welchen Nationen gehört das 21.jahrhundert??

[ThomasWach]

Zu dem Thema mal zwei Kommentare in der amerikanischen Presse

Op-Ed Contributor
[b]A World in Need of a New Order
By THIERRY DE MONTBRIAL
Published: April 1, 2009
Future historians might look at the collapse of the Soviet Union as the end of the 20th century, and at the current financial crisis as the beginning of the 21st. Remarkably, these two macro events have a common root, which is also the root of globalization: the revolution of Information Technologies.
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What the international community can and must demonstrate now is a willingness to undertake a full reconstruction The G-20 summit would be a great success if it could achieve just that, in addition to agreeing on credible immediate economic and financial measures.

Any attempt to rebuild governance must recognize that the new international system must be multipolar, heterogeneous and global.
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Quelle:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/opinio...brial.html


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Op-Ed Columinst
America Agonistes
By ROGER COHEN
Published: April 1, 2009
LONDON — Pax Americana, unlovely but effective, has endured for more than 60 years, the consequence of the post-war development of the United States as a European and Asian power. It has averted the worst, but it is safe to say that it is closer to the end than the beginning of its life.

I say this with no enthusiasm. As a beneficiary of America’s far-flung garrisons, and a member of a generation blessed (as the Germans say) with late birth, I have few illusions about what greater disasters might have befallen Europe and Asia without the offsetting presence of U.S. power.

But, as General Motors has discovered, history moves on.

G.M., in fact, is not a bad emblem for this moment when the world’s tectonic plates are plainly on the move. No corporation ever symbolized American might with greater vividness. It topped the first “Fortune 500” list in 1955, the year I was born, and was in the top three by revenue every year until 2007. Now it is all but bankrupt.
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Quelle:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/opinio...cohen.html