Current diplomatic activity, especially recent visits by senior U.S. officials to China underline the still difficult relations among the major powers. William Burns, the current CIA head, earlier this month described the more tense relations among the major states in international relations in the annual Ditchley lecture :
The US and its allies have to adapt to a world of permanently contested primacy. The post-Cold War dominance of the US drove the world more broadly towards democracy and free markets. …Those trends have now solidified into current reality with strategic competition with China and Russia’s war in Europe, one representing the challenge from a rising power, and the other showing that a declining power could pose a different type of threat. The post-Cold War era is definitively over and the US is no longer the
Here at Global Summitry Project ( GSP ), we pay ‘large’ attention to the policy and to the process in the Global Order. We are also ‘driven’ to comment on many of our colleagues, particularly those drawn to a ‘Realist’ perspective in international relations. Many colleagues are called on to target and explain their framing of international relations from a great power dynamic. As a result I, and many other colleagues, expend much analytic energy on all these Realist views that continue to focus on the ‘stru