Happy New Year, and a Good Link to Read
Hey all- I hope you've enjoyed the first week or 2010, which here in Kunming has been sunny, nice, and warm.
Here's a good article to start the year off- in the Financial Times Gideon Rachman writes that democracies such as Turkey, India, Brazil, and South Africa have increasingly turned their backs against US foreign policy in support of policies supported by China. Here's the key finding:
So what is going on? The answer is that Brazil, South Africa, Turkey and India are all countries whose identities as democracies are now being balanced - - - or even trumped - - - by their identities as developing nations that are not part of the white, rich, western world.
Just another example of how neo-conservatism's blind devotion to democracy promotion as the end-all and be-all of international relations was so wrong-headed.
