... China South America resources agriculture population food commodities soybeans Brazil Argentina 50 As climate constraints and demographic imperatives make food security an ever more critical issue, agricultural resources may become the new linchpin in inter- national relations. Grown...

... East South America China George Bush Iraq dictatorship authoritarianism Europe 412 Democracy still occupies the high ground in the world. . . . Yet, just a few years into the new century, the grand hope that it will prove the age of democracy s global triumph appears far more tenuous than...