The future has turned out to be nothing like the optimists of that decade supposed.
The 1990s was a decade of grand optimism. This hope appeared grounded in the Soviet Union’s fall, the subordination of Chinese communism to raising living standards and the domestic absence of radical politics. Many assumed that the future would be peaceful, ever more prosperous and less susceptible to class politics and rebellion from discontented voters. This mindset so distorted political thinking in Europe and North America that it encouraged reckless risk-taking.
The Clinton administration treated Russia’s ongoing energy-producing capacity as irrelevant to its possible geopolitical …read more
Source:: New Statesman
