Preemption

Nov 28, 2006 22:10

I am reading some slides on Containment v. preemptive foreign policy.  Granted, I am reading it in the context of military law studies, but I am curious why it is that we do not seem to take a position of not only military preemption (which I do not particularly care for) but also one of cultural preemption.  If Clausewitz is right and war is ( Read more... )

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plastictao November 29 2006, 14:44:56 UTC
Except that, in the modern climate, such sychretization is called "imperialism", and in case you hadn't noticed, most people think that's bad.

Anyway, we _do_ try to export our brand of republican democracy. It just doesn't often work out very well. Many would point to Germany and Japan post-WWII as an example of successful nationbuilding-in-our-own-image, but those were countries/societies we completely flattened with all-out war before we came in with a mighty army and imposed/forced order over the course of decades. We haven't tried that again, probably because it required all-out war first. We haven't had an all-out war since WWII, because the political/philosophical climate of our culture changed to view war as an absolute evil (instead of a morally subjective tool).

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mikevout November 29 2006, 17:15:34 UTC
I thought I would call it collaboration. Scholarship initiative. Study abroad. Cooperativism ( ... )

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