Nairobi — The impending American presidential election has dynamics turning against the hitherto poll favourite, Ms Hillary Rodham Clinton, in favour of the newcomer, Mr Barrack Obama, for the Democratic Party slot. If, indeed, the tables are turned and the Democrats win, then the stage will have been set for a coup de grace in US foreign policy, at least for the better.
Perhaps a good beginning point is to pose a question asked in 1989 by Newsweek's London bureau chief Daniel Peterson to Britain's Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd about the then looming New World Order that was to suck the void left by the end of the Cold War: Is the post-bipolar world more dangerous than the Cold War world was?
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