Word: imperialistic
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...failure. Grand designs to remake nations are dreamed up in the groves of academe and the corridors of power. They are implemented, however, by young men (and women, too, nowadays) who are far from home, bored, sometimes ill-educated and often frightened. If you are a high-minded imperialist, sooner or later-whether in a village in Kenya, a Casbah in Algiers, or a jail in Baghdad-your young soldiers will get you into trouble. They will do something so foolish or impetuous or horrible that all your good work will be forgotten, and you-and they-will be reviled...
...failure. Grand designs to remake nations are dreamed up in the groves of academe and the corridors of power. They are implemented, however, by young men (and women, too, nowadays) who are far from home, bored, sometimes ill-educated and often frightened. If you are a high-minded imperialist, sooner or later?whether in a village in Kenya, a Casbah in Algiers, or a jail in Baghdad?your young soldiers will get you into trouble. They will do something so foolish or impetuous or horrible that all your good work will be forgotten, and you?and they?will be reviled...
...random Saturday a few weeks ago, former FM Exectuive Amelia E. Lester ’05 and I cc’d Chopra to invite him to a private viewing of the recent feminist, anti-imperialist adaptation of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park—which we both had to watch for class. Depsite Chopra’s response of “I promise I’ll be there” (he loves those feminist adaptations), he did not show up. Neither...
...published in the U.S. The book's central thesis was a defense of the "liberal imperialism" that Britain purported to practice toward the end of its time as a great power. Moreover, Ferguson argued that the U.S., whether it wanted to admit the fact or not, had become an imperialist power itself. Rather as Rudyard Kipling had done a century before (though he is careful to say that Kipling's language is that of a bygone age), Ferguson invited Americans to take up the white man's burden that the tired British had perforce laid down...
...world force that is increasing its presence in global politics. Despite controversies about constitution and unity, and though it still lacks consensus on common foreign and defense policy, Europe has in the past 50 years united itself in a way that is historically unprecedented, rejecting its past imperialist and military identity and rallying around its egalitarian tradition. With a unity founded on such democratic principles, an economy as strong as that of the United States and a multicultural population of 450 million, the EU is an exciting and vital object of study at the beginning of the twenty-first century...