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Politicians may debate whether America, in the post-cold war era, will continue to hold center stage. But no one can doubt that it fills the world's screens -- cinema and television -- as well as its VCRs, bookshelves, record stores and CD players. The dominance is especially pronounced on movie marquees. In most foreign countries, the most popular films are from Hollywood: brain-bashing action epics from Schwarzenegger and Stallone, to be sure, but also fantasy romances like Pretty Woman and Ghost. If we make it, they want it -- and lately, if they are Japanese, they want...
Olin currently helps finance post-doctoral fellows, visiting scholars, professors and three major projects. These research projects examine Congress and defense policy, Soviet and American views on the post-Cold War and the decline of multinational continental empires, Huntington reports...
...relatively painless. A more plausible scenario is that war will be so costly to the United States and its allies that politicians will be promising never to involve their countries in such entanglements in the future. That equals no deterrent for future aggression and a failure of the post-Cold War world order...
...conquer the Middle Eastern oil fields if Saddam Hussein had peacefully persuaded Kuwait, Saudi Arabia et al. to restrict production enough to shoot the price up to $40 per bbl.? Get real. The central issue is aggression, and how -- make that whether -- it can be contained in the post-cold war world. And forget all the moaning about shedding blood to keep feudal autocracies in control of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. One might well wish for more appealing victims and potential victims to champion. But if < aggression is to be opposed only when the targets are kindly liberal democracies...
...fact, the rationale for war goes beyond oil. The showdown with Saddam is a test case of whether the international community can contain unprovoked aggression in the post-cold war world. If the Iraqi dictator gets away with his seizure of Kuwait, the precedent will be set for other aggressions and other wars, some of them potentially nuclear, started by any nation that wants to alter the map of the world by force. American public opinion so far seems to understand this intuitively, but without much help from the President. He will have to do better than that...