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...George W. Bush's reaction against Clintonism wasn't just reflexive and political; it was also philosophical. He filled his Administration with strategic thinkers, mostly neoconservatives, who had big ideas about how the world should work. The most important concept was the moral sanctity of American power. The post-cold war world was unipolar; multilateral institutions like the United Nations were feckless constraints on American action. Diplomatic protocols like the Kyoto accord and the Middle East peace process were outdated as well (the protection of Israel was another basic neoconservative assumption). The response to Islamic radicalism would be strategic...
...class, “Post-Cold War Security: Terrorism, Security, and Failed States,” is co-taught by Clarke, who has filled high posts for four presidents, and Rand Beers, who most recently served as the National Security Council’s senior director for combating terrorism and is now chief foreign policy advisor to Sen. John F. Kerry, Mass., the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee...
...summer of 1993, Huntington argued in the journal Foreign Affairs that “the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural...
Cuno says he’s troubled by the increasing post-Cold War tendency of “nations claiming cultural property as theirs and only theirs at the expense of others,” with increased restrictions in trade in antiquities. “It will reinforce nationalist tensions and policies and play to the increasing strengthening of nationalism in the world,” he says...
...Harvard Film Archives will show this 2000 German film (with English subtitles) two days before winter break. If the Christmas season has you overdosed with hopefulness, go see this decidedly less-than-optimistic film that provides a grim account of post-Cold War life, with a remarkable central performance by Hannelore Elsner. 7 p.m. Tickets $8; $6 students; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street...