Rising Geopolitical Paradigms Require a Strong and United Western Alliance
As a community based on values, the West must strengthen its cohesiveness in order to grapple with the pace of globalization, and face a geopolitical axis actively shifting toward Asia, argues Stephen Szabo, executive director of the Transatlantic Academy, which is a partnership between the German Marshall Fund and the Bucerius Zeit Stiftung.
A division of the West could prove counterproductive opposite the rise of China and India. The highly diminished international image and authority of the United States renders it essential to cooperate with Europe in order to re-cast the transatlantic relationship on the basis of consensus. Departing from unilateralism, the West must champion international cooperation through NATO and the United Nations, in the tradition of the Kosovo intervention and the humanitarian ideals then outlined by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The Globalist, October 30, 2007, republished at the GMF
