Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The following article has been specially condensed for the Crimson by David Caploe from a piece he wrote with Eqbal Ahmad entitled "The Logic of Intervention" in the January issue of Race and Class, a quarterly organ of Third World Affairs published by the Institute of Race Relations (London) and...
I. The Advocates of Intervention in the Press
SINCE the autumn of 1974, Americans have been treated to spate of articles advocating US military intervention in the Middle East. They have appeared in such influential Journals as Harper's The New Leader, US News and World Report, New York Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and above all Commentary...
According to those advancing this line of argument, the postwar global order, dominated by overwhelming US military and economic power, has been severely shaken by the Arab oil boycott and the OPEC price hikes which followed it. More importantly, these events indicated a quest by the formerly colonized producing countries...
FOR THE FIRST time, producer states demanded and received the price they wanted, instead of accepting the dictates of western companies backed up by the power of western states. As such they are believed to have demonstrated that the global economic system created by imperialism could be used against the...