Sublime

Today, potential enemies proliferate not because of anything the United States does but because of who the United States is. This changes not only U.S. foreign policy but the institutional structure of the United States. The entire world is a potential antagonist and requires constant management.

But the U.S. assistance came at a price. For months, the Bush White House had been pressuring Jordan to get behind its plan to topple Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. The squeeze had begun in the late summer, when the king met with Bush and his top deputies during an August 2, 2002, visit to the White House. The usually charming Texan was cool and

As Kevin Rudd noted, “once you have economic power, it in turn engenders political power; it in turn makes possible to have security power through the acquisition of military capabilities, which in turn generates foreign policy power, which in turn generates strategic power”[129].

Porter spoke of how companies over the last generation had pursued a vision of globalization in which they owed nothing to any community.

Finding an Interested Ally

Anghie argues that Vitoria justified extreme acts against American Indians by developing a form of power which defined the Indians as being so barbaric as to be beyond civilized organization and natural law, while simultaneously defining civilized sovereign power as the capacity to wage war and acquire title over territory and the alien,