Changing balance of the world will push some of the countries from the trustable sphere of the USA for sure, and the first one of these will be Georgia. Instability in the region will sooner or later push Georgia to loosen its ties with USA and have a leader who is more mild in the language and actions and bended towards to Russian politics in the region. Because Russia has strongly reminded the red cross borderlines of on its zone and whatever happens Russia will show all its power both economically and militarily in the region.
Starting from the first years of 2000, there has been clear attempts of USA in the neighbouring countries of Russia, such as supporting “US friendly” leaders and political movements economically. The outcome came out quite suddenly in Ukraine and Georgia. Later step was to place weapons and security shields in Czech Republic and Poland. These steps should be strong interventions of the borderline of the Russian Zone. Even though these countries are not an actual part of the Russia, still having their unique characteristic as ex-members of Soviet Union and communist movements. Since both ex-Soviet and ex-Yugoslavian countries are not politically stable and strong in enough to stand in front of the Russia, most of them found the way out by joining to EU? This was a practical solution for the small countries both in numbers and economical powers. But Russian intervention into Georgia on August, 2008 opened up a new page and started most of the residents of EU to question; how EU might stand in front of Russian politics while Putin is making decisions in a minute, and EU could not agree on basic matters for months and months. In a metaphorical way, this is a bit like trying to communicate with letter in the age of internet. Because so far, it is really important to keep in mind that Russian politics are so much moving in a fast decision making character, and the same element can well be seen in China and Iran.
Certainly, the ones who play chess will remember that the one who moves fast, because of not using the sufficient time and hurrying up is more likely to be tramped and not see the whole game and loose the game eventually. But does it really be like that? In this game does really EU (as a player) have the chance of waiting for more than the it’s allowed in the rules of the game, and start “asking the ideas of everyone watching the game from the tribune”? Since this matter does not have a complete and clear answer and it is discussable, but if our minds starts to analyze the differences and its effects of the decision taking systems both in east and west and, there is no doubt that there will be some benefits to find maybe some “hybrid models” in decision taking systems.
Gokhan KURTARAN
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