November 22, 2002
The phantom empire
From the perspective of those outside the United States, moreover, American foreign policy has distinctly imperial overtones. As sober an observer as Pierre Hassner, research director emeritus at the Centre d'Etudes et des Recherches Internationales in Paris, writes that ''doubtless a return to the imperial theme is in the nature of things,'' wondering only whether the new American empire will be based on force or cooperation. Citing such examples as the refusal of the Bush administration to allow the International Criminal Tribunal to try Americans, Hassner points out that ''the Americans are absolutely against any encroachment on their own sovereignty but absolutely in favor of intervention against others.''--Alan Wolfe, The Phantom Empire - The Boston Globe
Posted at November 22, 2002 10:10 PM | Perspective
