The Second Superpower
'There is an emerging second superpower, but it is not a nation.� Instead, it is a new form of international player, constituted by the "will of the people" in a global social movement.� The beautiful but deeply agitated face of this second superpower is the worldwide peace campaign, but the body of the movement is made up of millions of people concerned with a broad agenda that includes social development, environmentalism, health, and human rights.�� This movement has a surprisingly agile and muscular body of citizen activists who identify their interests with world society as a whole and who recognize that at a fundamental level we are all one.� These are people who are attempting to take into account the needs and dreams of all 6.3 billion people in the world and not just the members of one or another nation.� Consider the members of Amnesty International who write letters on behalf of prisoners of conscience, and the millions of Americans who are participating in email actions against the war in Iraq.� Or the physicians who contribute their time to Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres.'

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