ABSTRACT
In the geopolitics of international relations, the US has managed to stay close to the EU, Japan, China, and Russia, whilst these powers have, for reasons of historical, geographical, and/or racial tensions, been quite reluctant and mistrustful of each other. Critics identify democracy as a weakness and have accused the United States decision-making apparatus as having no real direction in its implementation of grand strategy. In fact, the Clinton political economy, 'rested upon an assumption that the United States had to be at the heart of a regionalised world economy. If the logic of the advance of liberal democracy and international economic liberalisation is the intention of the United States, then Bill Clinton was clearly misunderstood when accused by pundits of lacking that vision thing. In solar system analogy, the sun was being described as the United States and the planets being the countries in Central and South America.
