"The West dominated world trade and power for two centuries, disrupting the pre-1800 more balanced international distribution of wealth and power. Now the global balance is shifting to the East, and to primary producers of commodities worldwide..

The West, used to being the center, will have to accept a new., more pluralistic world."

to read Philip S. Golub's article published in: Le Monde diplomatique, November 2008, click on

http://mondediplo.com/2008/11/07centre