Thursday, May 20, 2010

The Iran nuclear deal and the new premier league of global powers


Brazil and Turkey are determined to pursue diplomacy and compromise � even if it means upsetting Washington

Simon Tisdall
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 19 May 2010

"The furious row between the Obama administration and the leaders of Brazil and Turkey over how best to handle Iran's nuclear ambitions, following this week's controversial "uranium swap" deal in Tehran, reflects a more fundamental and widening disagreement over how the world should be run in the 21st century.....

This week's symbolically significant attempt by Brazil and Turkey to do things differently, and the divisions the subsequent row exposed, suggests this already rickety traditional international security architecture, maintained and policed by a few self-appointed countries, cannot hold much longer. Power is shifting away from the west. You can almost feel it go."

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