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Canada A 'Pivot' Country That Will Thrive In New World Disorder

Canada A 'Pivot' Country That Will Thrive In New World Disorder

2012-05-06
Source: Huffington Post

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The world is moving into an era without any dominant global powers, and Canada will be among the winners in the new world disorder, a prominent risk analyst predicts in a new book.

Ian Bremmer, author of Every Nation For Itself: Winners and Losers In A G-Zero World, identifies Canada as one of the very few developed-world countries that will have a distinct economic edge as the world moves into a new phase of global power.

“We have entered what I like to call a 'G-Zero' world: one in which no single nation (not even the U.S.) or alliance of governments (certainly not the G-7 or G-20) possesses the political and economic muscle to drive an international agenda,” Bremmer writes at the Wall Street Journal. “In this new decentralized global order, growth isn't enough. A country also must have resilience—the power to pivot.”

As one of these “pivot” nations, Canada joins a list of mostly emerging economies as a country with the wind at its back in the coming years. Among other countries Bremmer identifies as winners are Brazil, Indonesia, Turkey and even Africa, which he describes as a “pivot continent.”....





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