Because every place is strategic, the possibilities of conflict become more numerous than ever. And yet no world government has ever been on the horizon. The United Nations has served either as an extension of great-power conflicts, without mitigating them, or as a forum for action on those conflicts, particularly in the far-off corners of the developing world, like sub-Saharan Africa, that the great powers at least deem secondary or nonessential. As for global institutions like the G7 or G20, the more accurate description, as Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer has noted, is G-Zero.
