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Future Alignment of World Power

The balance of geopolitical power twenty years from now will be a continuation of trends already evident. There is today one superpower in the sense of a specific nation with enough clout to be influential around the world, and that is the United

States. In 20 years, the United States will remain a superpower as an individual state facing regional powers that could rival her power and constitute superpowers on their own, based on economic ties or cultural similarities. The north-south dichotomy will become more pronounced, with the north being the U.S., Europe, and some configuration of the former Russian Republics as the developed world set against the south of Latin America and Africa as the still-developing world. The nation-state remains an important unit, though in some parts of the world it becomes less independent and more powerful through alliances along the lines of the present European community, but with a stronger political component than that alliance is now intended to have. The primary political paradigm will be some form of participatory democracy in imitation of the form prevalent in the developed world. China as well will have moved toward that structure but will still constitute an uncertain member of the northern world, a country still attempting to develop a strong capitalist economy but still wary of her more successful neighbors such as Japan and rivals such as the United States.

The likely political units to develop over the next 20 years will see the United States remaining independent in the West; a unified Europe perhaps extending her reach by allowing some of the newly democratized and formerly Warsaw-pact nations to join the EC, a move linked to the ability of these countries to overcome their past and to develop a viable and stable economic structure; a Pacific basin power base for Japan, with links to other Asian nations such as Korea; a largely independent China developing a more capitali...

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