"Empire", hoe de fouten van vorige "empires" vermijden? by Guido Thursday July 17, 2003 at 03:24 PM |
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In de VS hebben enkele Republikeinen zich verenigd in het "Committee for the Republic." De bedoeling van deze groep is om na te gaan welke fouten er gemaakt zijn bij de vorige "Empires" en deze in de toekomst te vermijden.
"Its five sponsors include conservative C. Boyden Gray, a White House lawyer in the first Bush administration; Chas. W. Freeman, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia; and Stephen Cohen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution."
En in onderstaand stuk kan je lezen dat ze opperen voor een Empire maar beheerd door multilaterale instuties.
"Left-leaning foreign-policy thinkers have taken up the battle cry as well, saying they disagree less with the ends of the neoconservatives than their means. They want empire, but administered through multilateral institutions. Robert Cooper, director-general for external affairs at the European Union and a senior adviser to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, calls for a "new kind of imperialism" by which Western states, perhaps acting under the guidance of the United Nations, take political responsibility for zones of disorder. Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay at the Brookings Institution, a more-liberal leaning think tank here, write: "The real debate is not whether to have an empire, but what kind."
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