When I think of countries that I enjoyed visiting, that I would want to go back to, Italy would be one, Japan would be another. I've only been to Indonesia once or twice and it seems like such a fascinating country. I guess India certainly.

The relations between countries in the coming decade are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments, their cultural ties and antagonism with other countries.

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

As far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different.

I don't know what will happen 100 years from now.

Obviously there are divisions within the West and divisions within Islam - there are different sects, different communities, different countries. So neither one is homogenous at all. But they do have things in common.

Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.