The America that Can Say No
A multipolar order implies that several emerging powers hold competing views about how the world should be run, and are prepared to act to advance their global agendas. That is not the case; instead, we are witnessing the birth of a non-polar order, with America’s chief competitors preoccupied with problems at home and in their immediate neighborhoods.
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NEW YORK – Early this month, Kyrgyzstan’s president Kurmanbek Bakiyev went cap in hand to Moscow to ask for financial aid. To make his request more palatable, Bakiyev announced that he was demanding that the United States close its airbase in Kyrgyzstan, which resupplies NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan. Similarly, late last year, Iceland’s government asked Russia to help bail out its banking system, while Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari visited China in hopes of securing an emergency infusion of cash.