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Friday, November 28, 2008

Russia: Time to re-invent global system

Time to re-invent global system

Sat, Nov 29 02:55 AM

The world community took a wrong turn at the end of the Cold War, and now finds itself amid a hostile landscape, surrounded by unfamiliar problems that cannot be resolved using the existing instruments of international security. That, at least, is the message coming out of the Kremlin with increasing urgency of late.

Russian leaders argue that growing global financial mayhem, deepening distrust between Russia and the West and the worsening threat of nuclear weapons' proliferation all stem from the US decision to go-it-alone after the USSR collapsed, effectively creating a unipolar world order. The mounting list of challenges cannot be addressed by adjusting old methods, they argue, but only by turning a clean page and re-inventing the global system.  more

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