WPR Briefing: Trans-Atlantic Ties Still Key to Renewing U.S. Global Leadership

Friday, February 8, 2013 at 11:15AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett in China, Europe, India, US, WPR Feature, Wikistrat

For roughly a decade now, I’ve been advocating that America needs to be unsentimental in choosing its military allies for the 21st century. Europe and Japan are aging and seem increasingly less willing to protect their interests abroad, while India and China are becoming budding superpowers with global interests that, to a stunning degree, overlap with America’s. Most pointedly, we live in an age of “frontier integration” triggered by globalization’s rapid advance, a process in which China and India, and not the “old” West, are the two rising pillars. So it makes sense for America to focus future alliance-building efforts in their direction.

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Article originally appeared on Thomas P.M. Barnett (https://thomaspmbarnett.com/).