It will focus on the implications of the new reaction force for Alliance crisis management around the world.

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This was the case back in October, when SABMiller, the UK-listed world number two brewer, announced that it was forming a new alliance in North America with Molson Coors.

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The ultimate goal of this new energy alliance is to eventually humble the U.S. as the world's undisputed political, economic and military power, forcing its withdraw from the world stage by using energy as a sledgehammer for international change.

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The Russian and Chinese led Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is the most alarming example of these as this expanding alliance has both in its stated objectives and in practice demonstrated its desire to create a new world order based on multipolarity.

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