WE ARE ON THE BRINK OF FAILURE IN RESPONDING TO GLOBAL CRISES

COMMENTARY ARCHIVES, 26 Sep 2009

Anthony Judge

Afghanistan As a Strategic Metaphor

The following text reframes the global strategic challenge, using the failure of conventional application of resources in Afghanistan as a metaphor. It has been developed as an editorial experiment using simplistic substitution, with due apologies, from the excellent text regarding the challenge in Afghanistan by Nick Clegg and Paddy Ashdown (We Are on the Brink of Failure in Afghanistan: this is our last chance, The Guardian, 18 September 2009).

It is produced on the occasion of a historic General Assembly of the United Nations, the Pittsburgh G20 Summit Meeting, and publication of a report by an international group of environmental scientists and economists, coordinated by Brian Walker (Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions. Science, 2009, 325). This indicates that the world faces a compounding series of crises driven by human activity, with which existing governments and institutions are increasingly powerless to cope with (see also Human-made Crises ‘Outrunning Our Ability To Deal With Them,’ Scientists Warn, ScienceDaily, 17 September 2009). Other such editorial experiments are listed below.

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