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Changing hands

With Brown set to succeed Tony Blair in the next month or so, the French having already appointed a new President and the Americans having to soon what will the state of world politics be for the next few years?

Blair, Bush and Chirac have had their differences over the last few year but they have all been in power for a considerable amount of time and their personalities have influenced the way others think of their countries. With all of these nations about to get new and very different leaders (Unless the US elects another Republican) how will that landscape change? I have no idea really I’m just a computer scientist but I can’t see things staying the same.

At the moment each of these nations has been relatively outrospective, they have been concerned with world issues and making the world and safer and cleaner place but each of the new leaders has reasons not to continue with this precedent - the French are dying for internal reform and I can’t see Sarkozy being too worried about whats happing outside of the French economy really, Brown has already said that his main focus will be on home issues such as the NHS and Education and the Americans, whoever they elect will have to deal will Bushs negative impact on their foreign image before they can even consider looking any further, coupled with a slowing US economy they’ll probably have their work cut out!

This could be bad news for humanitarian issues and climate change, with China also seeming not interested in these issues then could there be a swing wawy from internationalism and back towards nationalism…?

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