My 'CSM' article on the implications of the Georgia crisis

This article, which appeared in the August 22 edition of The Christian Science Monitor, uses some of the kind of analysis I use in Ch.6 of the book to look at the implication of the mid-August Georgia crisis for world politics. It starts like this:

The tectonic plates of world politics have been shifting for several years now, and on Aug. 8 the extent of this shift became plain. In Beijing, China held a stunning coming-out party as a world power. Meanwhile, 4,000 miles away, Russia invaded neighboring Georgia, signaling loud and clear that it would no longer be taken for granted.       Russia is back. China has emerged. Suddenly, the United States isn't the world's only superpower.                     How will these three big powers interact in the years ahead, and what does that mean for all of humanity?

Then, it goes on to note the many levels at which the nations of today's world are interdependent and notes other differences between the world power system today and the highly competitive nature of the Cold War system.