"What bothers me is that nobody can define any priorities or set any themes," said Parag Khanna, author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order. "We are really living in the new Middle Ages, where you have terrorist movements and mercenaries, international corporations and crusaders, and city states. That's the real 21st century landscape." LINK

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