But the second world phenomenon is more than economic. Iran, Afghanistan than in London or and Pakistan are soon to become members. It is fueled by Gulf oil revenues being ments to inspire an overall reinvested within the region rather than in London or Geneva, building hotels and rejection of Western med- housing, creating jobs, launching media such as Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya and even dling in Arab politics.
You feel this energy most powerfully in Dubai, the new cap- ital of Arab civilization. What can be felt just as powerfully is the relative decline of the US and the increasing assertiveness of both the European Union and China. It may not be a multipolar world—certainly not militarily—but these three represent distinct imperial systems whose gravity is pulling on the Second and Third Worlds.
The Cold War and its aftermath was a geographical anomaly: America was able to run the world from the other side of it. But it is the rising Europe and China that sit on opposite ends of Eurasia, their influence expanding toward each other to meet in the middle around the Caspian Sea. But Russia knows that in the long term its rhetoric of strategic part- nership with China cannot hold, for China is exploiting the timber and mineral resources of the Russian far east at a rapid rate.
As Russia sees the real east rising, it will realize that it must throw its lot in with the West. For now, however, Russia fits the Second World archetype of an upstart power with a mind of its own.
EU member, it is becoming ever more Europeanized. This capital is spreading growth and development eastward with new housing, kilim factories and schools.
Yet growing Turkish wealth and confidence has also fueled a neo-Ottoman spirit that is tangible in Istanbul and Ankara, a feeling that the Turks are powerful enough to play by their own rules with respect to Iraq and its Kurdistan region, Syria, Israel and the Caucasus. We might ask: Are the superpowers pulling the Second World—or the Second World pulling the superpowers?
The answer is: neither. Russia has offered to build nuclear reactors for Iran and Libya, Kazakhstan and Malaysia are holding trade conferences to link their regions, and an oil-production alliance is sprouting among Iran, Indonesia and Venezuela. Chinese fly directly to Brazil, while Brazilians fly directly to Africa. The intensity, complexity and density of Second World ties within itself—no longer routed through Washington or Moscow—is more than any one power can control.
Trade within this with Australia, Japan, Korea greater Asian zone has surpassed trade across the Pacific. Overall, it is as if the Asian tradition of imperial hierar- from the Association of chy, which predates the Western, Westphalian nation-state system by millennia, is Southeast Asian Nations returning, with China at its the heart. ASEAN to the annual East China may be the imperial system that towers over the region as America does in Asian summit — to which its hemisphere and the EU in the eurozone, but remember that in Second World zones America is not invited.
Malaysia and Thailand continue to conduct joint military exercises with the US, but also buy ever more weapons from China. Geopolitical theories would predict that in such a period of flux, and in such a region where the declining hegemon America and ris- ing contender China experience a power transition, conflict is inevitable.
We will soon find out whether the theory is correct. Look at its recent foreign policy record: failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, failure to eradicate Al Qaeda or to create peace in the Middle East, failure to advance global trade talks or to reconcile with Latin America—the list goes on.
The present caution on interventions and democratization is motivated not by sudden enlightenment, but by the shock of failure. America is waking up to soft power and public diplomacy because hard power has failed and no alternative remains. The State Department is broken to an extent that outsiders fail to appreciate.
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