Winners and losers: special global back-to-school edition…

David J. Rothkopf, writing on FP, assesses the winners and losers of the last week - what with the UN meeting and leaders giving their addresses there, the G20 meeting, etc. etc.

"The United Nations General Assembly meeting is like back-to-school week for the international community. Heads of state gather in New York, disrupt traffic and battle for air time. The feeling has only been enhanced by the satellite meetings that have cropped up in the vicinity of the U.N. (and I don't just mean the festive "Death to the Dictator" brunch that is held daily across First Avenue from the United Nations campus.) The Clinton Global Initiative comes to mind. And then this year, the all that was given an added dollop of bilateral and multilateral schlag thanks to the addition of the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh.

And just like any first week back at school, some people emerged as obvious winners and others were clearly losers who would probably all have to sit together in the geopolitical cafeteria, ostracized and abused by all "the mean girls" of the international community. In order to help you know who was helped by the past week and who was not, I've prepared a little list."

Here is Rothkopf's list....with at least one surprise.

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