«It's not going to be the war on terror that defines the ideological challenge of our century. It's something more elusive. I think it involves three grand changes. 

One is what I call the global political awakening. For the first time, all of humanity is politically active. That's a very, very dramatic change. Second, there's a shift in the global center of power from the Atlantic world to the Far East. Not the collapse of the Atlantic world, but the loss of the domination it's had for 500 years. And the third is the surfacing of common global problems that we have to address, lest we all suffer grievously. I mean climate and environment, but also poverty and injustice.»

Zbigniew Brzezinski in LA Times, 28 de Setembro 2008