International Law

America and the World After Bush

By Handakte

“When 9/11 struck, America, feeling proprietary about the international liberal trade order we created and nurtured into global dominance, naturally felt the need to propose all manner of new rules. But in our haste to demonstrate their effectiveness to the world, we not only botched their initial employment in many instances (Afghanistan and Iraq being preeminent), we scared off many old allies and alienated much of the rest of the world in the process. Meanwhile, globalization’s nosebleed trajectory continued unabated, even as America routinely blew its whistle to interrupt game play after every post-9/11 international crisis to announce our latest new rule set for global order.”

Quelle: Thomas P.M. Barnett on January 17, 2009
Quelle: Thomas P.M. Barnett on January 08, 2009

Full post as published by Handakte WebLAWg on January 17, 2009 (boomark / email).