From evil to upheaval and beyond: How the ‘axis’ metaphor shaped modern geopolitics

From evil to upheaval and beyond: How the ‘axis’ metaphor shaped modern geopolitics

The world spins on its axis. iStock/Getty Images PlusThe plural of “axis” is “axes,” apparently. And foreign policy types with axes to grind have been making good use of this other meaning, too. Earlier this year, academic Walter Russell Mead warned in his Wall Street Journal column of the threat from the “axis of revisionist powers” – namely China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. The same grouping has gone by other names, too: the “axis of upheav…