Der Tagesspiegel has an opinion piece on the state of the world by Bernd Ulrich, an editor of Die Zeit. Power over the rest of the world is slipping away from the western democracies and that, in turn, demands a radical re-thinking and change of course in its politics.
In German (of course) at
www.tagesspiegel.de/meinung/archiv/11.06.2006/2587235.asp.