Post-Post Cold War
Posted : May 12, 2006 at 11:44 am [America/Los_Angeles]
“I am very pessimistic about Western Europe — and that is new,” remarked Lajos Bokros, a professor of economics at the Central European University in Budapest. Too many Western Europeans “are not competitive enough” and “do not want to implement the reforms.” Unless Europe chooses the high-growth Irish model, as opposed to the French, Italian and German models, Mr. Bokros added, “the whole European region will decline further and become insignificant and irrelevant for this global game.”
For all these reasons, I don’t miss the cold war, but I do miss the post-cold war. Because this post-post-cold-war world seems infinitely more messy, difficult to manage and full of way too many bad guys getting rich, not by building decent societies, but by simply drilling oil wells.
- Thomas Friedman, “The Post-Post-Cold War”
Amen.
- Anand
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