Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Are the Arab countries turning to move into China's orbit? ( A panel discussion)

i think the real orbit is the global economy, not a nation or national economy.

nations continue to exist, i know, but the extent of their control over their territory has shrunk.

they have weapons, and can fight and kill people. but the decision on the fate of the people of yemen will not be made simply in riyadh, say, but in the confluence of riyadh and teheran and washington, and probably other places whose input i don't know.,

the fate of crimea should be decided by a democratic vote of the people in the crimea, but it won't be.

my favorite account of this shift comes in the work of peter geschiere, in Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust, and The Perils of Belonging.

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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Are the Arab countries turning to move into China's orbit? ( A panel discussion)

In time we could be asking the same question about Africa, Asia,  the Caribbean, Europe, South America, and bringing up the rear, Solomon Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and Papua New Guinea…

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