Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “A City upon a Hill”
- PART ONE THE ORIGINS OF THE SECURITY ETHOS, 1688–1919
- PART TWO INTERNATIONALISM AND CONTAINMENT, 1919–1973
- PART THREE THE AGE OF STRATEGIC GLOBALISM, 1973–2001
- 6 Core Values and Strategic Globalism through 1988
- 7 The False Promise of a New World Order
- 8 Globalization and Militarism
- PART FOUR THE BUSH DOCTRINE
- Conclusion: The Security Ethos and Civic Virtue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- References
8 - Globalization and Militarism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “A City upon a Hill”
- PART ONE THE ORIGINS OF THE SECURITY ETHOS, 1688–1919
- PART TWO INTERNATIONALISM AND CONTAINMENT, 1919–1973
- PART THREE THE AGE OF STRATEGIC GLOBALISM, 1973–2001
- 6 Core Values and Strategic Globalism through 1988
- 7 The False Promise of a New World Order
- 8 Globalization and Militarism
- PART FOUR THE BUSH DOCTRINE
- Conclusion: The Security Ethos and Civic Virtue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
To protect our interests and our values, sometimes we have to stand and fight.
Bill Clinton, 1991Boy, do I ever miss the Cold War!
Anthony Lake, 1993[W]e stood by as nearly a million Africans were hacked to death with machetes in Rwanda.
General Wesley K. Clark, 2002[N]o nation has ever developed over the long term under the rules being imposed today on third-world countries by the institutions controlling globalization.
Tina Rosenberg, 2002Like George H. W. Bush before him, Bill Clinton found the idea of a new world order utterly compelling. And like Bush, Clinton and his foreign policy advisers were convinced that the road to stability and order went through Moscow. After Clinton and the democratically elected Boris Yeltsin met in April 1993, a $1.6 billion aid package was introduced in Congress to promote “democracy, civil liberties, and free markets.” Was the historic mission to remake Russia, long a tale of failure, on the verge of success?
Clinton's long-time friend and chief Russian adviser Strobe Talbott saw assistance to Russia as the linchpin of the administration's version of a new world order, as the key to the furtherance of strategic globalism. Supporting Russia “constitutes the greatest single task facing American foreign policy in the years to come.” When Yeltsin ordered a shutdown and then a military assault on the Duma in fall 1993, the administration did not object in the hope that a stronger commitment to democracy would follow.
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- National Security and Core Values in American History , pp. 227 - 256Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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