I've just finished reading a fantastic book by Robert Kegan (above). It is a very interesting discussion of some of the potential flash points which could lead to international tensions in the future, with the major international dividing lines being between a coalition of Autocratic governments on the one hand (Russia, China, Iran) and the Democratic governments of the West.
The idea of a world of shared, converging values is blown out of the water: and rightly so!
The tensions in question are already evident in Asia, over the status of an independent Taiwan, in Eastern Europe over the "colour revolutions" in Georgia and the Ukraine and over the sovereignty of states like Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.
I share the view of the author that the next century will present many fresh challenges and that "the liberal world need to choose whether they want to shape it - or let others shape it for them."
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