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Walt is always thinking of ways to blame the most vexing international problems on liberal hegemony. From proliferation to terrorism to Trump, he sees its malignant influence everywhere he looks.
As the world’s most powerful fascist regime, one would expect China to encounter great difficulties spreading its influence on liberal Australian university campuses, the student bodies of which are hypersensitive to right-wing teaching or teachers.
It is time for conservatism to fully embrace a prudential, restrained approach to foreign policy.
According to the UN, of all the countries that are expected to shrink the most in the coming decades, the top 10 are all in the eastern half of the continent, and seven of those are in the European Union.
Skeptics say these are fiddled figures that don’t account for the “explosion” of zero hours contracts.
Despite the brief unrest that followed the announcement of Jokowi’s victory, the election of April 17 stands as a testament to the continuing resilience of Indonesia’s young democracy.
Furet feared that there now appeared to be a simultaneous deadening of politics as the apparently unchallengeable hegemony of quasi-liberal democracy grew, and a dangerous backlash against the system.
Progressives will look askance at these policies, decrying them as racist and fleeing to Green or other political alternatives.
Corruption, escalating unemployment, social unrest, and failing public infrastructure plague the nation.
American oil companies didn’t want to topple Saddam Hussein; they wanted to trade with him.
Immigration, Islamism and integration are salient issues even in the happiest place on earth.
Dallaire, abandoned in hell, the commander unable to command, let alone protect, developed severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
It is not a resurgence of “authoritarianism” that explains the current backlash against liberalism, as Kagan and others would have us believe.
Chomsky has spent his career attacking the crimes and incompetence of the US but excuses the same in its enemies.