"When historians look back on his presidency, they may well judge him most on whether he managed to bring the emerging powers into the world order..... By the time Mr Obama leaves office,..... powers like China, India and Brazil will surely have taken larger roles in the world economy."
"The haves have learnt that unless they start at least to talk about their own eventual disarmament they will find it hard to get many of the have-nots on their side when it comes to preventing further proliferation."
An end of hubrisAmerica will be less powerful, but still the essential nation in creating a new world order, argues Henry Kissinger, a former secretary of state and founder of Kissinger Associates
"Any economic system, but especially a market economy, produces winners and losers. If the gap between them becomes too great, the losers will organise themselves politically and seek to recast the existing system—within nations and between them. This will be a major theme of 2009."
" Britain’s campaign against the slave trade and then slavery itself was waged at the cost of severe damage to its sugar industry, the souring of its relations with America and France, and the loss of some 5,000 British troops’ lives."
"Under (the new notion of global responsibility to alleviate suffering), the “international community” (in effect the UN) would be placed under an actual obligation to take, if necessary, coercive action to protect people at risk of grave harm, in accordance with clear criteria."
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America's new hope
Banning the bomb
An end of hubris
My brother's keeper
To protect sovereignty, or to protect lives?