A RULE BASED INTERNATIONAL ORDER?
Many leaders world over, at least those who belong to the 50+ generation and essentially the democratically inclined world, beleive the post war world order based on rules, treaties and decent diplomacy is over. Its now based on exentric, egoistic and, in many ways, whimsical leaders who , ride on a rightist nationalistic rethoric wave and try to influence the world. However , fundamentally, one factor remains the same. The powerful among them , economically and militarily, continue to have considerably more influence on matters. While this has been so, for thousands of years, technology, media and super fast information flow has ensured the influences impact quick and fast. Leaving most nations clueless. By the time they figure it out, things have drastically changed again. So the future will retain this characteristic of speedy actions and influence. Interdependence , however. remain strong. This means that short ter...