Word: hobbesian
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...Optimists suggest that international institutions can socialize rising powers, making them responsible—rather than revisionist—stakeholders. Sadly, our world is likely to remain a Hobbesian place. As China’s intentions are unclear, it is wise to hedge one’s bets—even if China is decades from its potential. But being confrontational is counterproductive. If we treat China like a hungry dragon, it will become just that...
...general, I consider myself an optimist. Really, I do. But this Dartmouth team, in all its absurd awfulness, has rocked my faith in humanity and in the Hobbesian principle that the first law of human nature is self-interest...
...system incarnate the vision of its 1950s authors? And how does it mesh with the nation's grand romance of the open road? After all, travelers from Walt Whitman to Jack Kerouac have done time on earlier American roads, portraying them variously as pathways to freedom or into a Hobbesian wilderness. And more recently, Hunter Thompson, Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen and other myth-makers have tried to hustle the Interstates into that same picaresque canon...
...speech in New York City, Kerry trashed Bush's upbeat assessment of conditions in Iraq and the next day accused the Commander in Chief of living in a "world of fantasy spin" for speaking of Iraq as a budding democracy. In fact, Kerry says, Iraq has become a Hobbesian environment that is breeding terrorists and sucking U.S. forces into a Vietnam-style quagmire, a "war with no end in sight." Some Kerry advisers exulted in their candidate's straight talk. "We have gone on the offensive, and are dictating the field," says one. But the White House pounced, charging that...
...essentials of governance and our common public life" was right on point [Sept. 12]. Many government departments have seen budget cuts over the past few years, and we have arrived at the logical end. The Bush Administration can no longer provide security - that most basic part of the Hobbesian bargain in which power is ceded to a central authority in exchange for protection. To consign people to death because of bureaucratic ineptitude is one issue, but speaking as a political scientist, I believe failure to provide security for one of the largest ports in the U.S. is simply unthinkable. Barbara...