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At a time when international relations specialists are struggling to define the new type of power exerted by the USA hyper power, neo-imperialist or globally hegemonic this paper will attempt to describe how this international order operates at country level by taking examples from the Middle East and African regions. The first questions to be asked is whether the internal political relationships are modified, or more bluntly are there new winners and losers ? Second, we can ask about the regional configurations, relations between neighbouring states and the relevance of regional groupings. Globalization was once described to be the triumphant march of both free market principles with generalised free trade and democratic contagion. As the priority is now set on reinforcing states and their cooperation against terrorism the paper will assess the price of the trade off. |