Author: Ramesh Thakur, University of Waterloo

There is a serious problem at the centre of the world order.  It cannot hold if the power and influence embedded in international institutions is seriously out of alignment with the distribution of power in the real world.

The importance of Brazil, China, India and other countries lies in their future economic potential that is already being translated into present political weight. We are seeing a major global rebalancing of economic, political and even moral relations between the West and the rest. Read more…