. >> georgetown university repressor charles kupchan says we are moving into an age where no region will dominate the way the american and british have in the past. he spoke of the carnegie consul in new york city. this is just under one hour. >> thank you very much jo ann. it's a pleasure to be back at the carnegie council. it's nice to be back in new york. i guess we are both gluttons for punishment in the sense that i keep coming back here and you keep asking me to come back so i guess it is a good team. if you step back from the headlines of the newspaper of the last few years, and say what is the undercurrent? what is the flow of events of the last few years, i think you would come to the conclusion that in our part of the world, and by that i mean the west, north america, europe, and let's put japan in there although not geographically part of the west but geopolitically part of the west, world war ii, that this zone has been going through iraq patch. our economies have close. we are facing debt crises and we are not sure how to get out of them. perhaps most worrying, our political