Item 1: "Why Obama does not want a multipolar world order" by Zaki Laidi
- Power is currently expressed in terms of three assets:
i. material wealth, without which nothing is technically possible
ii. strategic power, which implies the capacity to project force to one’s periphery and beyond
iii. power instinct – that is, the will to weigh in on world affairs - through one’s ideas, capabilities or attractiveness.
- There are now four great economic centres of power: the US, Europe, China and Japan. They are very distantly followed by India, Brazil and Russia
- Europe is the only region in the world that refuses to increase military expenditure
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