From crisis to crisis shutdown of the international role of the U.S.

One of the side effects of the shutdown in progress in the United States is the almost total blockage of American diplomatic , in a very delicate phase relatively to Washington's interests in the Asian region . Obama has long focused its attention towards the allies that border with China, in a western perspective of trade protection in contrast to the increasing Chinese initiative . For the White House has become a priority enter into trade agreements and collaboration geopolitics , which also include military aid , with Asian countries , in view of the creation of free trade areas , necessary for the development of the U.S. economy . The purpose is twofold stimulate demand for U.S. goods and services , also produced on site , taking advantage of the low cost of labor and at the same time oppose China's growth in the region, both from the point of view of that political influence. Beijing has always seen as a pitch invasion the U.S. action in an area, which it considers should fall under its influence . Even from a logistical point of view can not leave Washington to China supremacy of the streets of maritime communications , considered strategic for the movement of goods. However, despite this background of great importance, the President of the United States has deserted important summits with Asian countries , concerning precisely these issues and letting the U.S. was represented by scarce diplomatic missions. Is it clear how internal problems , certainly very pressing , have an impact not only on the future of the United States, but around the Western economic system . The paralysis of the federal state American can seriously affect the balance of world , leaving the field open to Chinese and Russian initiatives , the consequences of which would be difficult to remedy . Furthermore, what emerges is a clear weakening of the prominent role of the U.S. in the international arena . A country that is not able to resolve its internal contrasts , although very deep , in a fast, can not aspire to the role of the first world power that must be exercised with the necessary speed and presupposes a capacity of intervention even disconnected from the internal affairs . This means that, once the phase of the bipolar system , which has replaced that of the unique power , the direction taken is to multilateralism , limited to a few subjects , full of uncertainties. It is , however, a direction already impressed by the story in a clear, thanks to the advent of globalization, where, however , the U.S. position remained one of the cornerstones of the scenario, the USA remains one of the strongest actors on the scene , but that that is configured is a weakening , which seems physiological in nature . If the growing importance of other entities that have emerged due to their economic strength is an incontrovertible fact , the implosion due to the inability of the American political system to hedge , reacting to foreign bodies after all , is an element of novelty. The deep radicalization of the conflict of social and political nature , which is taking place in the United States , was underestimated by the same parties where she was born and most importantly, none have been provided for the consequences both domestically , and internationally . Democrats and Republicans , often agree on different issues of politics, gradually turned away , allowing a greater importance of their extreme wings , which is creating a deep gap , which can cause difficulties for the plant founding of the political system of the nation's largest the world. If this trend still worsening it is not unrealistic to think that the end of bipolarity has so far ruled the political structure of the country, in favor of a fragmentation of political forces , which could not only complicate the governability and stability of the state. On the other hand, it is what is already happening without the phenomenon has an institutional framework . For the future is difficult to predict that everything is within the previous tracks : the internal contrasts parties will increase by imposing a drastic transformation of the political landscape , which should cover far more than the current two subjects . In these terms may become more difficult to counteract the action of undemocratic states , and therefore not subject to excessive delays at times of political discussions ( as in the case of shutdown ) , with response times is not reasonable . One understands that the importance of the U.S. as a whole Western world, this event represents a factor of safety concern , the U.S. is not Italy or the endless negotiations the EU by the limited powers , is the country , for better and for worse , the guarantor of a complex system of protection against new powers that advance and which have not yet democratic standards for who knows how long. These prospects , if the U.S. can not solve these problems alone , can be solved only with a greater collegiality of the western states , which must begin with greater political autonomy and decision-making capacity of supranational bodies like the European Union already present , that , in the light of these developments , it must stimulate their own growth in this light.