The New Old Year
The three parts of the world that gained the most attention in 2012 – Europe, the Middle East, and Asia – will dominate global affairs in 2013 as well. At the same time, developments not just in the year ahead, but also during the next decade and beyond, will depend largely on how the US manages its domestic challenges.
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NEW YORK – Any look back at 2012 would necessarily focus on three parts of the world: the eurozone, with its seemingly endless financial uncertainties; the Middle East, with its many upheavals, including, but hardly limited to, the Muslim Brotherhood’s accession to power in Egypt and Syria’s savage civil war, which has already claimed more than 60,000 lives; and the Asia-Pacific region, with its rising nationalism and political tensions after decades of being defined almost exclusively by extraordinary economic growth amid considerable political calm.