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And then the next question's going to be, are there any other countries out there besides
China and India You know, is Brazil going to demand a piece of the pie Is South
Africa To what extent are you going to see -- I think the really fundamentally
interesting question is, are you going to have cleavages based on development, where
you've got China, India -- and you see this already in the WTO, where China, India and
Brazil do hold sort of similar policy positions. But in the future, that might not
necessarily be the case as some countries acquire more middle-income status.
ROSE: One country that doesn't figure in analysis in any of the various camps is Russia.
DREZNER: Yes. That's true, because I didn't talk about energy. You know, I mean,
beyond that, the fact is -- is that, you know, in the long term, as you say, 15, 20, 30 years
from now, you know, the line is, "Demography is destiny," and in that case, Russia
doesn't look terribly good. Its demographic future is not a terribly promising one. It's the
same reason I didn't mention Japan, either. Both of those countries demographically are
not moving in a direction that indicates long-term economic growth.
ROSE: Got it.
Okay. Thank you very much, Dan. And at this point, why don't we turn it over to our
questioners and fire away.
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ROSE: Okay. Well, while we're waiting for some more questions to be generated, Dan,
are there any other thoughts that you have and that you've been led from this or -- in the
writing of it, did you come across new ways of thinking about it that you hadn't
expected
DREZNER: Well, as I said, the whole enterprise is interesting, because I'm basically --
I'll be interested about the reaction it gets. Because making the argument that the Bush
administration is pursuing a very subtle form of multilateralism is not the common
perception of what the -- how the administration behaves. So that's been interesting, just
trying to make that argument for others.
And then the other -- I think the more interesting question in the future is going to be, to
what extent does -- to what extent is the administration doing this because it's consciously
doing it, as opposed to sort of seeing the handwriting on the wall And I think that's
going to affect what happens in 2008, as well, which is even if you have, let's say, a
Democratic party candidate who, you know, has adopted, let's say, a tough protectionist
line on China or India -- what they wind up doing once they actually take power.