Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; itโs a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.
Paddy AshdownThe multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries โ these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.
Paddy AshdownThe United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.
Paddy Ashdown