Column 146

Threat of great power war recedes

While difficult to keep in mind amidst today's economic nationalism, a global middle class of unprecedented size rises in the emerging markets of the East and South. This accomplishment logically ensures the continuation of great-power peace, as America's grand strategy of spreading its liberal trade order reaches its global apogee.

Countering this view is a growing cohort of academics and analysts who insist that such rising consumer demand will inevitably trigger "resource wars" among the world's great powers, with climate change as an unforgiving accelerant.

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Comments

[Bill Cherry]

I am most concerned with a Pakistan/India war that could drag in China.

Is there a possibility that this could trigger resource wars or otherwise screw up globalization and the great power peace?

[Tom Barnett]

I don't see China getting involved whatsoever. Never really did before. Why now?

Because China's itching to have one with India?