The epic global shifts of 2011 transformed the political,Barbour Jackets Sale, economic, and social landscape from Shanghai to Sao Paolo,Barbour Sale- Archbishop Church of England is,Barbour Outlet, Washington to Cairo. No leader (not even Vladimir Putin) is safe from the vagaries of social unrest; no economy (not even China’s) is unaffected by contagion from an over-leveraged,Barbour Sale, under-managed euro zone. No country (not even the United States) is immune from the threat of asymmetric attacks—anything from a terrorist bomb to cyber-warfare.
Volatility will be the rule, not the exception in 2012. What I call the emerging Archipelago World of fragmenting power,Barbour Sale- Special report Rupert Murdoch,, capital,Barbour Jackets Outlet, and ideas is inherently unstable— as vulnerable to old conflicts and new threats as it is open to the dynamic entrepreneurship of rising powers and corporations remaking the map of the world.
A 20-year period of one-world, one-way globalization is being replaced by an era of competitive sovereignty. The walls are going back up. Developed and developing states alike are vertically integrating
