Washington hopes that a U.S. military presence at “the heart of the landmass extending from European Russia to China” will serve to keep its rivals in check. . BUT WHILE the Bush administration began the war in Afghanistan, since taking office last year, Obama has definitively made it..…

This instability results from number of factors, including what Callinicos calls the increasingly centrifugal world represented by European and East Asian economies, and BRICs. Third, to the overreach of U.S military adventurism, both Iraq and Afghanistan, and also represented by NATO..…

“war on terror,” however, and Pakistan’s central role in Afghanistan, has complicated any alliances, because Pakistan and India see each other as mortal enemies. . Similarly, the European Union (EU) has not been able to transform its massive economic weight, equivalent to that of the..…