This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Bachelor.

One hundred years since the end of the first war, one hundred years of transition I learned

from Gregory Kaplay, the editor in publisher of defense and foreign affairs, from the British

Empire and to what we have now which is some form of the American Empire under transition.

In that hundred years of course, it included a event that is significant in my lifetime.

1944, the landings on Normandy, June 6, 1944.

That was part of the transition.

We're watching a world that right before us from the 20th century to the 21st that is

now if I read Gregory correctly in an interregnum.

Gregory, a very good evening to you.

What was the system then and what is it transforming into that we can measure now?

Good evening to you.

Good evening John.

Well, we're moving definitely into an unknown period right now.

World history has only seen two real global domination systems.

The first was Pax Britannica which emerged through the 18th, 19th century into the beginning

of the 20th century and that transitioned in a fairly orderly fashion to Pax Americana,

Pax meaning peace obviously.

Of course we've seen over the course of human history many regional pieces, Pax Romana,

Pax Sinica under the hand dynasty 2,000 years ago.

It's a regional operations in Central Asia for example and elsewhere which could have been

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