03-02-2006, 09:37 PM
I think it is useful to understand the geopolitical power centers in the world. It is very necessary to understand the interdependencies within and between them. We also need to know who is controlled by whom?
The Westphalian bonanza after the end of Colonialism and the formation of the UN after WWII have led people to ignore real power and belive in a false image of all things are equal in world bodies. Time and again India misread the dependent powers and courted them thinking that they would act/support India. However, due to their 'majboori' or better incentives from other powers, those countries always acted in the best interests of their controllers. So that the UN instead of being a fair assembly has become a controlled assembly where the decisons are arrived at in the best interests of the master contollers(puppeteers) aso known as P-5.
Even Japan laments that despite all the aid/largesse it has expended in S.E. Asia it never got the commensurate support it should have got from those countries. I think here again power centers were mis-read.
The Westphalian bonanza after the end of Colonialism and the formation of the UN after WWII have led people to ignore real power and belive in a false image of all things are equal in world bodies. Time and again India misread the dependent powers and courted them thinking that they would act/support India. However, due to their 'majboori' or better incentives from other powers, those countries always acted in the best interests of their controllers. So that the UN instead of being a fair assembly has become a controlled assembly where the decisons are arrived at in the best interests of the master contollers(puppeteers) aso known as P-5.
Even Japan laments that despite all the aid/largesse it has expended in S.E. Asia it never got the commensurate support it should have got from those countries. I think here again power centers were mis-read.