Gap Filling: Power Shift in the Next 20 years. The fascinating story of the next couple of decades will center on the interaction of two big power shifts. The first is the familiar one from west to east and north to south. By 2030, Asia will (1)_____ the US and Europe on (2)_____ of relative power. But this is not just about China and India. Mexico, Indonesia, Turkey, Vietnam, Iran and others all ahve the (3)_____ to become significant powers. This is the (4)_____ that the US will find it harder to shape in its own image. The more (5)_____, though, is the ebbing of power away from teh state. This has been happening for some time. Govenments everywhere, in teh west and among the rest, have been weakened by globalization --- lsing power to (6)_____, footloose capital and cross-boarder networks. The NIC identified a (7)_____ --- from the state to the individual. There port calls this (8)_____ a "megatrend", a dvelopment that will change fundamentally the way (9)_____. In rising states, growing prosperity and (10)_____ are emancipating hundreds of millions of people who have hitherto been locked out of politicas. Women almost everywhere are securing (11)_____ education and the beginning of a voice in politics. We have caught (12)_____ the awakening in the uprisings in the Middle East but it reaches well beyond the (13)_____. Most of these developments are (14)_____. A world in which women (15)_____ will surely be a good deal safer than one in which (16)_____ are ruled by male mechismo. In the west, the (17)_____ should be seen as an extension rather than a threat to (18)_____. But autocrats everywhere as well as democratics leaders (19)_____ the old politics of (20) _____ will find the loss of power hugely destablizing.