But I wanted to share what I have observed today in the media, it is very interesting and we must be lucky to be able to witness these things happen in our life time, I think.
The world order has changed, says an interesting article written by a Goldmansachs official (a business leader), in the name of Jared Cohen. I don't know him and I don't think to have read him somewhere else before.
I watched an interview with him on BBC World News today and impressed by it. I noted his name to check the article he was interwied on the BBC.
Before I checked the article I opened ETV news and watched a news that the Ethiopian parliamentary delegation travelled to Moscow to strengthen its ties (cooperation) with the Russian counterpart.
It is impressive, I thought, that a small country like Ethiopia could contemplate any sort of independent bilateral relation with Russia at this moment in history. The time of Cold-War has ended, in fact, I said to myself.
The topic that attracted my attention from Mr. Jared Cohen's interview and article is the idea of "Geopolitical Swing States" (akin to the US-swing states, who can deternine who could be the country's President, but in this case about who could determine the world's superpower).
The article is somewhat long but very much interesting, well researched in my view, and worth of your time.
Don't miss it!
Executive summary
As the U.S. and China coexist, compete, and confront each other to determine who will set the geopolitical rules, they will either court or thwart an emerging group of countries to gain an edge. This new class of influential nations are the geopolitical swing states of the 21st century. These countries fall into four overlapping categories:
1. Countries with a competitive advantage in a critical aspect of global supply chains
2. Countries uniquely suited for nearshoring, offshoring, or friendshoring
3. Countries with a disproportionate amount of capital and willingness to deploy it around the world
4. Countries with developed economies and leaders with global visions that they pursue within certain constraints
In American domestic politics, swing states can be won by either party, and they decide presidential elections. In geopolitics, swing states have agency to chart their own course on an issue-by-issue basis, and they may decide the future of the international balance of power. They are relatively stable countries that have their own global agendas independent of Washington and Beijing, and the will and capabilities to turn those agendas into realities. They are growing more assertive in using their economic advantages to bolster their standing and influence. They are more demanding, flexible, dynamic, and strategic than they could have been in the 20th century, whatever their shared interests with one great power or another. And they will often choose multi-alignment, a strategy that will make them critical—and sometimes unpredictable—forces in the world’s next stage of globalization, and the next phase of great power competition.
https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligen ... tates.html
