The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global NationSimon and Schuster, 2008 M01 1 - 496 páginas This dramatic narrative of breathtaking scope and riveting focus puts the "story" back into history. It is the saga of how the most ambitious of big ideas -- that a world made up of many nations can govern itself peacefully -- has played out over the millennia. Humankind's "Great Experiment" goes back to the most ancient of days -- literally to the Garden of Eden -- and into the present, with an eye to the future. Strobe Talbott looks back to the consolidation of tribes into nations -- starting with Israel -- and the absorption of those nations into the empires of Hammurabi, the Pharaohs, Alexander, the Caesars, Charlemagne, Genghis Khan, the Ottomans, and the Hapsburgs, through incessant wars of territory and religion, to modern alliances and the global conflagrations of the twentieth century. He traces the breakthroughs and breakdowns of peace along the way: the Pax Romana, the Treaty of Westphalia, the Concert of Europe, the false start of the League of Nations, the creation of the flawed but indispensable United Nations, the effort to build a "new world order" after the cold war, and America's unique role in modern history as "the master builder" of the international system. Offering an insider's view of how the world is governed today, Talbott interweaves through this epic tale personal insights and experiences and takes us with him behind the scenes and into the presence of world leaders as they square off or cut deals with each other. As an acclaimed journalist, he covered the standoff between the superpowers for more than two decades; as a high-level diplomat, he was in the thick of tumultuous events in the 1990s, when the bipolar equilibrium gave way to chaos in the Balkans, the emergence of a new breed of international terrorist, and America's assertiveness during its "unipolar moment" -- which he sees as the latest, but not the last, stage in the Great Experiment. Talbott concludes with a trenchant critique of the worldview and policies of George W. Bush, whose presidency he calls a "consequential aberration" in the history of American foreign policy. Then, looking beyond the morass in Iraq and the battle for the White House, he argues that the United States can regain the trust of the world by leading the effort to avert the perils of climate change and nuclear catastrophe. |
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... means yielding to the United States . More than any other country , it is able to get its way on its own terms . That is largely because it has the strongest military on earth and is the leader of several alliances . The oldest and ...
... means yielding to the United States . More than any other country , it is able to get its way on its own terms . That is largely because it has the strongest military on earth and is the leader of several alliances . The oldest and ...
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... mean ' we , ' paleface ? " -BILL COSBY , Punch line in a joke about Tonto's final exchange with the Lone Ranger N ATIONS answer a primal human need to belong , to embed individ- ual identity in a collective one , thereby making the most ...
... mean ' we , ' paleface ? " -BILL COSBY , Punch line in a joke about Tonto's final exchange with the Lone Ranger N ATIONS answer a primal human need to belong , to embed individ- ual identity in a collective one , thereby making the most ...
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... means . Central Asia , where I traveled as a journalist for Time in the eighties and as a diplomat in the nineties , is made up of various stans , a Persian word that connotes a homeland for a people : Tajikistan for Tajiks , Kazakhstan ...
... means . Central Asia , where I traveled as a journalist for Time in the eighties and as a diplomat in the nineties , is made up of various stans , a Persian word that connotes a homeland for a people : Tajikistan for Tajiks , Kazakhstan ...
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... means , true for all of us . Many , in the course of their lives , change their nationality , and often their names as well . Both nationality and name are , after all , designations assigned to us not by birth but at birth ; they are ...
... means , true for all of us . Many , in the course of their lives , change their nationality , and often their names as well . Both nationality and name are , after all , designations assigned to us not by birth but at birth ; they are ...
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... mean different things to different people — it can mean different things to the same people in different contexts . A col- league of mine , Vishakha Desai , has said that when she is asked what is hap- pening in her country , she ...
... mean different things to different people — it can mean different things to the same people in different contexts . A col- league of mine , Vishakha Desai , has said that when she is asked what is hap- pening in her country , she ...
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THE POET AND THE PRINCE | 66 |
PERPETUAL WAR AND PERPETUAL PEACE | 86 |
BLOOD AND LEATHER | 104 |
AN END AND A BEGINNING | 237 |
THE UNIPOLAR DECADES | 253 |
THE NEW WORLD ORDER | 255 |
SEIZING THE DAY | 280 |
HARD POWER | 299 |
A THEORY OF THE CASE | 324 |
GOING IT ALONE | 347 |
A CONSEQUENTIAL ABERRATION | 370 |
THE AMERICAN CENTURIES | 123 |
MONSTERS TO DESTROY | 125 |
EMPTY CHAIRS | 148 |
THE MASTER BUILDER | 174 |
A TRUSTEESHIP OF THE POWERFUL | 203 |
Conclusion | 393 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 403 |
INDEX | 455 |
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Página 182 - To reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and To establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained...
Página 34 - For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God : the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
Página 34 - Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; and when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee ; thou shalt smite them, (and) utterly destroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them...
Página 219 - Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.
Página 180 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Página 112 - The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.
Página 180 - From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunderstorm; Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.
Página 31 - Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee : and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.