“It does not seem likely that any other nation hopes, in the next thirty, perhaps even the next fifty, years to rival the United States in the power to produce or in technological skill. Since it is upon these, above all other, factors that the modern nation-state depends, it is highly likely that, for at least the next generation, no power will have greater authority or responsibility in shaping international development... A situation has developed in which it is safe to say that every major European decision and every major Asiatic decision has repercussions about which American must make up its mind to have a policy.”Harold J. Laski, The American Democracy(1948), page 495.
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Irving Louis Horowitz is Hannah Arendt distinguished professor emeritus at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He also serves as chairman of the board and editorial director of Transaction. This is conceived as the second part of his essay on “Post-War Iraq: The Cult of Dictatorship vs. the Culture of Modernity”,Society. Volume 40, Number 5, July–August 2003.
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Horowitz, I.L. Real wars and culture wards: Domesticating foreign policy. Soc 41, 17–24 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02688213
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