As US influence wanes, a new world is emerging.
Hand in hand: Chinese and Pakistani border guards at the Khunjerab Pass, which extends between their countries What do an Iraqi jihadist, the Afghan president, a Chinese entrepreneur, a Russian special forces officer and a Filipino fisherman have in common? They are just some of the figures who appear in a remarkable crop of books on the big foreign policy stories of today. British debates about global affairs usually still start and end with the US but in the future it could be the absence of America, rather than its overbearing …read more
Source: New Statesman
