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FRIDAY BRIEFING | The end of Pax Americana: What now for the global world order?

FRIDAY BRIEFING | The end of Pax Americana: What now for the global world order?

FRIDAY BRIEFING | The end of Pax Americana: What now for the global world order?
Jan 15, 2021 1 min, 13 secs

The end of Pax Americana and what lies ahead for South Africa and the world.

A post-American world, one no longer defined by US primacy, is coming sooner than generally expected – less because of the inevitable rise of others than because of what the United States has done to itself," he writes.

Millions of people, including in South Africa, watched aghast as the famous dome of the Congress building came under siege from people who, from afar, subscribe to outgoing US President Donald Trump's post-truth, post-factual and hyper-nationalistic ideology and style of politics.

In this week's Friday Briefing, three analysts consider the instability in the US from a South African and world perspective.

Francis Kornegay Jr, born in Detroit, Michigan and now an analyst in South Africa, argues that we should not underestimate the impact of last week's events on America and that it "ranks as a national trauma with the November 1963 assassination of President John F.

On 20 January, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the next president of the United States, but already there are several challenges facing him and his vice-president, Kamala Harris, as they confront the toxic legacy of Donald Trump's presidency, writes Francis Kornegay Jr

Fed on a diet of manipulation and lies, Tawana Kupe writes that the excluded can easily become the puppets of corrupt autocrats in South Africa's party politics who take advantage of the context, just as Donald Trump did in the United States

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