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To: skinowski who wrote (574308)	3/22/2015 1:11:46 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794144

If some relatively limited problems like East China Sea - and Ukraine - could be solved, an incredible block MAY develop, which would include the US, Canada, the EU, Russia, China, India, Japan - to mention just the few larger players. This was Kant's idea in Perpetual Peace reformulated by Thomas Barnett in The Pentagon's New Map. The concept in its essence is that there is a Core of developed and interconnected nations and a periphery of nasty and unsettled corners of the globe. The task is to stabilize the Core, then spread the Core by interconnecting the badlands. With the global financial crisis and a US President intent on leaving a global power vacuum, this post-WWII global order is falling back into pre-WWII chaos. My thesis was that the Core should revive the Mandate System and, in most cases, put the Mandate responsibilities on second-tier, Third World, powers (like Egypt). The Core should concentrate on deepening the networks into the second-tier while the second-tier "civilizes" the remaining regions of world disorder. You see this happening with China in Africa, for example.