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By PARAG KHANNA
Just a few years ago, America’s hold on global power seemed unshakable. But a lot has changed while
we’ve been in Iraq — and the next president is going to be dealing with not only a triumphant China and a
retooled Europe but also the quiet rise of a “second world.”………….
we’ve been in Iraq — and the next president is going to be dealing with not only a triumphant China and a
retooled Europe but also the quiet rise of a “second world.”………….
To be sure, Turkish pride contains elements of an aggressive neo-Ottomanism that is in tension with some E.U. standards, but this could ultimately serve as Europe’s weapon to project stability into Syria, Iraq and Iran — all of which Europe effectively borders through Turkey itself. Roads are the pathways to power, as I learned driving across Turkey in a beat-up Volkswagen a couple of summers ago. Turkey’s master engineers have been boring tunnels, erecting bridges and flattening roads across the country’s massive eastern realm, allowing it to assert itself over the Arab and Persian worlds both militarily and economically as Turkish merchants look as much East as West. Already joint Euro-Turkish projects have led to the opening of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, with a matching rail line and highway planned to buttress European influence all the way to Turkey’s fraternal friend Azerbaijan on the oil-rich Caspian Sea read more…
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