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The last few years have not been ripe for global reforms, as demonstrated by some telling intra-elite battles decided mainly by an arrogant United States government: the inability to expand the UN Security Council in September 2005; the potentially permanent breakdown of the Doha Round of World Trade Organization(WTO) negotiations in July 2006; the minor shift of voting power within the IMF board of governors in September 2006 (which strengthened several countries at the expense of Africa); the failure to expand the Kyoto Protocol at a November 2006 conference in Nairobi; and the lack of Middle East, Gulf, central Asian and Horn of Africa peace settlements or indeed prospects.
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