Stephen Sestanovich, "American Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective"
2009 ж. 24 Нау.
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"American Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective"
Speaker: Prof. Stephen Sestanovich
Date: October 1, 2007
Course number: U6800
Course title: Conceptual Foundations of International Politics
School: School of International and Public Affairs
Thanks
A great and insightful lecture
What ever when ever I am proud by American
fantastic critiques of Mearsheimer and Walt
dannng how do i get that s/a war cheat sheet.
Why does 2007 look like 1987?
I found the domestic policy section to be enlightening. But the rest was naive conventional wisdom. Democracy promotion in nearly every case has been subservient to perceived economic interests. Big oil more than anything else dominates our position in the middle east.
In other words, our sobs outnumber us backed democracies 10-1, especially outside of w europe.
Interesting that this talk was in 2009, given all that has happened since then
wasn't it given in 2007? I thought I heard him mention a Global Warming article in "today's NYT "-- 10/07
Stephen Colbert
Democratization leads to soft power... which is getting people to want what you want.
15:40
Multilatetalism doesn't work without a global arbiter.
Ie the un imf wbo Cbo these global institutions are dedicated to make unilateral decisions the appear to be multilateral on the surface look to the countries that changes their entire economies so they can receive loans because they are third world countries these countries are essentially forced to bend the knee to these western value institutions that really don’t have a clue how detrimental these “adjustments” are
The issue with multilaterslism is that it's not as simple as people think. It often leads to a paralysis in decision making and action. And whole Rome burns... the U.S. have been forced to take unilateral policy stances that some may deem problematic.
I think he what he meant by multilateralism is domestic multilateralism.
he lost me when he said egypt was in the middle east
I mean...it is
Maybe he was trying to explain about the relation of Egypt on Middle East. I believe that he knows that Egypt is located geographically in Africa, but it's geopolitical area of influence and interaction emcompasses North Africa and Middle East for sure.