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...will instead turn astronauts into paying passengers aboard yet-to-be developed commercial vehicles or Russian rockets. Meanwhile, China will be forging ahead in its effort to go to the moon. If we fall behind in this new space race, we will forfeit our status as the hegemon of exploration and technology...
...settled as much at the polls as in the horse-trading that follows. So, following McCain's advice to keep an eye on Ukraine may simply confirm for the beholder that the politics of the former Soviet republic is far more complex than a simple tale of a Russian hegemon menacing Ukraine's freedom...
...easy to assert that Japan's politics needs to be modernized. The nation has an aging population; economic competition from South Korea, Taiwan, even China; an education system that undervalues creativity; and a strategic challenge as its great ally, the U.S., ineluctably loses its position as an international hegemon...
Listening to Administration officials in Washington this week, you'd be forgiven for thinking Iran is an incorrigible hegemon, making violent mischief in every corner of the Middle East in order to drive the U.S. out of the region. Iraq is often presented as Exhibit A in the indictment of Iranian malfeasance. And yet, the outlook appears a little different from the U.S. embassy in Baghdad...
...Georgians certainly appeared intent on provoking the neighborhood hegemon last week when they made an ostentatious show of arresting the four Russian officers, threatening them with 20-year prison sentences and cordoning off Russian military headquarters in Tbilisi to demand the surrender of another Russian officer. Two groups of Russian servicemen were disarmed and beaten...