Un mondo "post Usa"

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"Preview of a Post U.s. World"

Two things were missing from this year's world economic forum at Davos: snow and America-bashing. There were lots of American businessmen, activists and intellectuals [...] but for the first time in my memory, America was somewhat peripheral [...]

[... ] in this small but significant global cocoon, people -for the moment at least- seemed to be moving beyond America [...]

[...] part of the reason is that people are moving beyond George W. Bush. Europeans and Middle Easterners in particular used to rail agains Bush. Now they think that their views about him and his policies [...] have all been vindicated, wo why keep ranting? Besides, he's a lame-duck president, his weakness on full display in last week's plaintive State of the Union address.
But thre may be a larger phenomenon at work here. This year's conference theme was titled "Shaping the Global Agenda: The Shifting Power Equation". The emphasis, and some of the talk at the conference, focused on that shift in power, with speakers foretelling the rise of Asia (and implicitly the decline of America and Europe) [...] but if so, we might also be getting a glimpse of what a world without America would look like. It will be free of America domination, but perhaps also free of a leadership [...]

[...] Listen to the new powers. China, which in three years will likely become the world's biggest emitter of CO2, is determined not to be a leader in dealing with global environmental issues [...]

[...] India's brilliant planning czar, Montek Singh Alluwalliah, said that "every country should have the same per capita rights to pollution". In the abstract that's logical enough, but in the real world, if 2.3 billion people (the population of China plus India) pollute at average Western levels, you will have a global metldown.

[...] Brazil, China and India speak of flexibility in the abstract but have made no new proposals. The ball is in everybody's court, which means it's in nobody's court [...]

[...] The global system -economic, political, social - is not self-managing [...] without some coordination, or first mover-or, dare one say it, leader- such management is more difficult [...]

[...] in a provocative essay in Foreign Policy three years ago, the British historian Niall Ferguson speculated that the end of America hegemony might not fuel an orderly shift to a multipolar system but a descent into a world of highly fragmented powers, with no one exercising any global leadership. He called this "apolarity". "Apolarity" could turn out to mean an anarchic new Dark Age [...] an era of waning empires and religious fanaticism, of economic plundee and pillage of the world's forgotten regions, of economic stagnation and civilization's retreat into e few fortified enclaves"[...]

[...] but for those who have been fondly waiting for the waning of American dominance - be careful what you wish for.

Seminario Aikido con Kai Cho Saito Hitoiro

Sappada, 8-10 febbraio 2007


Tre belle giornate intense e piene di puro aikido.
Ken e Jo a go go, e non è mancato lo spazio per il taijutsu. Che dire, tutto il programma di Ken e tutto (o quasi) quello di Jo.













Come sempre un Saito severo ma generoso negli insegnamenti.... anche se quanto ti passa accanto fai di tutto per non sbagliare :) tanto poi ti becca quando pensi che non ti guardi :P







L'organizzazione è andata ok, l'albergo era vicino ed il tempo per il relax non è mancato... l'unico neo (ma grosso) è stato il riscaldamento del palazzetto... (peste colga il responsabile del riscaldamento che ci ha fatto non solo ghiacciare, ma a me personalmetne ha fatto prendere il mal di schiena e la bronchite!!!!).











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