Author(s): Gwynne Dyer

Current Affairs

The coming world order "The United States need to lose the war in Iraq as soon as possible. Even more urgently, the whole world needs the United States to lose the war in IraqÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂæ What is at stake now is the way we run the world for the next generation or more, and really bad things will happen if we get it wrong." Since the end of the cold war, America has emerged as the world's only military super-power. But has American hegemony made the world a safer placeA And what does the future hold for life under the Pax Americana In Future: Tense, Gwynne Dyer brilliantly analyses how increased American militarism ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàespecially in the Middle East ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàis leading the world to the brink of disaster. Fringe groups of extremists ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàIslamist fanatics and American neo-conservatives ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàhave set the process in motion. It is not too late to reverse it, but the clock is running. The fate of Iraq is a sideshow, and the US has used the terrorist threat as a red herring, but the attempt to preserve US military supremacy is real, and can only lead to military confrontation. First published 2005.