By Dr Kamil Zwolski, Lecturer in Global Politics and Policy
Among all this doom and gloom over the European Union crisis and Western demise, Anna-Marie Slaughter has a reassuring message: “The pervasive narrative of Western decline and Asia’s rise is quickly reversing itself. While the major emerging countries, including those along the Pacific Rim, will continue to grow and prosper, the US will benefit enormously from domestic energy production, and the threat of an EU collapse will be resolved once and for all.”