#greatpowers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #greatpowers, aggregated by home.social.
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“In place of the powerful #NATO alliance that has protected all nations’ sovereignty, #Trump appears to want the sort of world called for by Russia’s president Vladimir #Putin, in which #greatpowers carve up the globe into spheres of influence” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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How Xi Jinping is rewriting the rules of global power. #Block1 #China #DonaldTrump #Geopolitics #Greatpowers #RussiaChina #Superpowers #USChina #VladimirPutin #XiJinping
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#Zombies are running the #international #system
"3 of the 5 #veto-wielding #greatpowers in #UNSC, #US, #Russia & #China, keep #blocking #resolutions tt wld settle #conflicts, notably in #Ukraine, #Gaza.. Fr 1989-2014, fewer than 15,000 people a year died in battles btw countries; since then, tt average has risen to 100,000 p.a. #UN #peacekeeping missions r down; global #arms sales r up.. int'l sys world's known for 8 decades was built by people who'd seen prev order fail"
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As the world inches back to a pre-WW2 order, the 'middle powers' face a grave new challenge
#power #democracy #RulesBasedOrder #greatpowers #trump #carney #nato #un #us #Europe #newworldorder #middlepowers
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#PowerPolitics is the new normal, falling out of Trumps zero-sum view of (international) relations. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-with-phillips-obrien
Only the #GreatPowers matter. This will make the world poorer, not just materially, but in joy, creativity, liveable lives.
Small countries, like Norway, have benefited hugely from the international order that Trump is tossing aside. Paul Krugman looking back at what we are losing: https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/decline-and-fall-of-the-american .
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Trump’s potential embrace of ‘continentalist geopolitics’ poses grave risks to Canada
#Canada #Trump #ElonMusk #USA #Geopolitics #USPolitics #GreatPowers #ForeignPolicy #InternationalRelations #Risks #Continentalism #GlobalOrder #Economy #Sovereignty
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The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)
The updated edition of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century: Can China rise peacefully? In clear, eloquent prose, John Mearsheimer explains why the answer is no.
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I didn't really know
@Prof_BearB very well, but I blogged about missing the chance to talk to him here in Berlin about #digitalGovernance, #GreatPowers and the end of war.https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2023/05/life-academia-and-great-powers-missing.html