Cover Stories

Written by S.G. Jilanee
March, 2010
There was a time when the sun never set over the British Empire. Now, the Union Jack has been rolled back. In vain do its Blairs and Browns try to recapture the old glory, even by acting as America's poodles. Read more Add comment (0)

Written by Chris Cork
March, 2010
Nothing is forever, especially empires. Those aged fifty or above will have watched the messy end of the British Empire through the 1950s and 60s. Former colonial territories were returned to their rightful owners in the surge of nationalism that followed World War II and the hasty withdrawal from India in 1947 produced a bloodbath; and the echoes of empire reverberate across the subcontinent still. The mighty USSR imploded in spectacular fashion, communism crumbled across most of the world, the Cold War ended and we entered unipolarity with America as the world's sole superpower. Today, a change is happening in the way the world is balanced and the place of America in the new order of things is not going to be at the top of the pile. Read more Add comment (0)

Written by J. Enver
March, 2010
Set to become a global power, China has won the confidence of the world's investors while the U.S. and other free market nations are losing their appeal. More than any recent American president, Obama displayed deep deference to his Asian counterparts during his visits to the continent last year. Media reports are rife that he did so, in part, because, like many Americans, he has become convinced that this will be Asia's century, and that the United States must begin to accommodate itself to this stark new geopolitical fact. Read more Add comment (0)

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