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Ten years after
Author(s) -
SMITH NEIL
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the geographical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.071
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1475-4959
pISSN - 0016-7398
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2011.00418.x
Subject(s) - geopolitics , implosion , shadow (psychology) , politics , political science , power (physics) , state (computer science) , political economy , economic history , development economics , geography , history , sociology , economics , psychology , physics , law , psychoanalysis , plasma , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science
Ten years after, the United States has suffered an extraordinary loss of the global political power it seemed to grasp in the wake of 9/11. This commentary discusses the reasons for such an implosion of power, different scales of geopolitical response and implications for the state and geopolitical analysis, all in the shadow of the 2011 Arab spring.