After a decade of war, the west is weak and in retreat
Western leaders no longer proclaim their desire to reorder the world.
BySeptember 11 attacks
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ByBlair: the 9/11 argument
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ByMarking 9/11
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By Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and senior fellow at the World Policy Institute
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