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04 May 09

Avalon Project - Washington's Farewell Address 1796

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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also n
not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.
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- But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing (with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the government to support them) conventional rules of intercourse,

16 Apr 09

NATO - Opinion: Speech, 12-Feb.-2009

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Ladies and gentlemen, NATO today is no longer the NATO of 1966, nor even that of 1995 when France first began her rapprochement. The Alliance has given up its cold-war posture, focused on the defence of territory – while of course maintaining its mission, its very raison d’etre, which is collective defence in case of aggression, Article 5. It has begun to contribute to international stability and to defend the interests of its members beyond NATO’s borders – in Bosnia, in Kosovo, in Afghanistan, and also quite recently off the cost of Somalia to combat piracy. In most cases, furthermore, it is doing these things under United Nations mandate.
NATO must learn to work consistently with all these players in an integrated manner. Personally I have worked to improve relations between NATO and the UN: I was the first NATO Secretary General to speak before the Security Council in New York; I
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- simplification of the chain of command, encouragement of new capability initiatives focusing on the deployability of forces, creation of the NATO Reaction Force, the NRF. Integrated forces no longer exist: forces are made available to NATO by the nations for a given mission (only a few dedicated forces remain, for practical reasons of consistency, as in the case of air defence). This reform effort is continuing, and it is close to my heart –
- I see myself as a European and an Atlanticist,

NATO - News: Strasbourg – Kehl Summit strengthens Transatlantic Link and looks at NATO’s future challenges, 04-Apr.-2009

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NATO leaders adopted a Declaration on Alliance Security reaffirming the basic values, principles and purposes of the NATO Alliance.
NATO leaders also welcomed the French decision to fully participate in NATO structures

NATO

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Article 5 of the Washington Treaty -- that an attack against one Ally is an attack against all -- is at the core of the Alliance, a promise of collective defense. Article 4 of the treaty ensures consultations among Allies on security matters of common interest,
NATO leads the UN-mandated International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan and has ongoing missions in the Western Balkans, the Mediterranean, and Iraq;

05 Apr 09

Pettman.pdf (application/pdf Object)

feminism, ir

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feminism

Wibben.pdf (application/pdf Object)

feminism, ir

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feminism

03 Apr 09

24 hours in Paris: Save time for a smooch in the city of romance - CNN.com

paris

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paris

NATO: News & Videos about NATO - CNN.com

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bbc NATO site

Obama: Europe faces greater terror threat than U.S. - CNN.com

obama on nato

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At an earlier joint press conference with Sarkozy, Obama reiterated the United States' commitment to NATO, describing it as the "most successful alliance in modern history."
"The basic premise of NATO was that Europe's security was the United States' security and vice versa,"
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- But summit co-host France, which is rejoining NATO's high command this weekend after more than 40 years, has rarely seen eye-to-eye with the U.S. on military matters.

19 Mar 09

Bioethics

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Consent from the human clone itself is of course impossible to obtain.
It may be argued, on the one hand, that no one consents to his own birth
Giving life to an individual does not grant
one the right to harm that individual. It is true that the scientist cannot
ask an unconceived child for permission, but this puts a burden on the
scientist, not on the child.
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- Each of us knows that no one has ever had our unique combination
  of natural characteristics before. We know that no one knows all the potentialialities
  contained within that combination. A cloned child, however, will live
  out a life shaped by a genotype that has already lived.
- It may be reasonably argued that genetic individuality as such is not
  an essential human good, since identi
- Moreover,
  he or she was cloned from that person's DNA for a reason, and must therefore
  in one way or another deal with his or her connection to that person and
  that reason.
- At the same time that our procreative origins endow us with individuality
  and freedom, our natural connection to our family of origin also binds
  us to the human world in ways that matter deeply. Personal and social
  identity and social links of responsibility are connected in countless
  ways to ties of biological kinship.
- The clone's place in the scheme of human relations will be uncertain and
  confused. The usual clear designations of father and mother, sister and
  brother, would be confounded.
- for some particular reason with some particular design
  in mind. This is far from the way children generally (and naturally) relate
  to their family of origin, and the differences may tend to run against
  the grain of the social institutions that surround the family.
- while
  cloning actually runs against the grain of that model. Adopted children,
  like biological children, are welcomed as they are (sometimes more so
  than biological children), frequently before their adoptive parents know
  much about what they are and may become. They were not conceived with
  some specific predetermined end in mind, and indeed they were not conceived
  to be adopted (nearly no one deliberately produces children for the purpose
  of adoption.)
- he confusion created by the complicated relationship of
  cloner to cloned may mean that no clear lines of parent-child, sibling-sibling,
  or other familial kin relations will develop.
- so the model of the
  natural family would be very difficult if not impossible to emulate.
- The family,
  of course, is at once a social and a natural institution, and the two
  elements reinforce each other in countless subtle ways. Breaking some
  of the links between them could leave the institution of the family without
  a firm grounding in nature and without strong social support.
- In cloning
  a child, on the other hand, parents seek to exercise total control over
  the outcome of the reproductive process itself. This does not mean that
  they completely shape their child before it is born: After all, there
  is more to each of us than our genome and our environment. But it does
  mean that they control and -- even if they do not -- that they will be
  held responsible for those things that parents have until now been forced
  to leave to chance, and that they therefore do not acknowledge, with humility,
  the limits of their powers, but rather they approach procreation as an
  exercise of their power and will.
- determine in advance what
  sort of child they will accept.
- The distance between the procreative
  nature of humanity and the social status of the family could grow, and
  both may become less thoroughly grounded in one another. That grounding,
  as has been discussed, is vital for both, and its diminution could bring
  with it profound problems. Family relations, and social relations in general,
  are founded at the deepest level on mankind's procreative nature, and
  on our character as begotten and begetting creatures.
- Human institutions, and particularly those (like the family) that transcend
  specific times and places, are storehouses of human wisdom.

08 Mar 09

JSTOR: International Organization, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Winter, 1975), pp. 37-60

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Three Models of the Future gilpin

26 Feb 09

Jihad vs. McWorld - The Atlantic (March 1992)

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barber

Human
rights are needed to a degree, but not citizenship or participation—and no
more social justice and equality than are necessary to promote efficient
economic production and consumption
a vibrant local identity, a sense of
community, solidarity among kinsmen, neighbors, and countrymen, narrowly
conceived.
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- For McWorld, it is the antipolitics
  of globalism: bureaucratic, technocratic, and meritocratic, focused (as Marx
  predicted it would be) on the administration of things—with people, however,
  among the chief things to be administered.
- laissez-faire market principles that privilege
  efficiency, productivity, and beneficence at the expense of civic liberty and
  self-government.
- antipolitics of tribalization has been explicitly
  antidemocratic: one-party dictatorship, government by military junta,
  theocratic fundamentalism

01 Feb 09

Power and Interdependence in the Information Age

neoliberalism, Keohane

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Neoliberalism

a world
in which security and force matter less and countries are connected by multiple
social and political relationships.
computer
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- communicate
- The quantity of information available in cyberspace means little by itself.
  The quality of information and distinctions between types of information
  are probably more important. Information does not just exist; it is created.
- A basic distinction can be drawn between
  behavioral power--the ability to obtain outcomes you want--and resource
  power--the possession of resources that are usually associated with the ability
  to reach outcomes you want.
- information revolution has a leveling
  effect.
- important barriers to entry and economies of scale remain in some
  information-related aspects of power
- investments
- often the creators of the standards and architecture
  of information systems.
- nformation technology has some effects on the use
  of force that benefit the small and some that favor the powerful.
- military powe

27 Jan 09

Making the World "Safe for Democracy": Woodrow Wilson Asks for War

WILSON ASKS FOR WAR

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classical liberalism

A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants. It must be a league of honor, a partnership of opinion.

20 Jan 09

Machiavelli: The Prince: Chapter XVIII

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it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities
I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I
shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them
is injurious

Machiavelli: The Prince: Chapter XVII

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ought not to mind the reproach of cruelty; because with a few examples he
will be more merciful than those who, through too much mercy, allow
disorders to arise, from which follow murders or robberies; for these are
wont to injure the whole people, whilst those executions which originate
with a prince offend the individual only.
nor should he
himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and
humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too
much distrust render him intolerable.
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- ought to inspire fear in such a way that, if he
  does not win love, he avoids hatred;

Machiavelli: The Prince: Chapter V

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the first is to ruin them, the next is to reside there in
person, the third is to permit them to live under their own laws, drawing
a tribute, and establishing within it an oligarchy which will keep it
friendly to you.

16 Jan 09

BBC - History - The Origins of World War One

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The US President, Woodrow Wilson, went much further. In his 14 points of January 1918, W
World War One must be seen in the context of an attempt by an aggressive, militarist state to establish hegemony over Europe, extinguishing democracy as a by-product. To argue that the world of 1919 was worse than that of 1914 is to miss the point. A world in which Imperial Germany had won World War One would have been even worse.

BBC - History - The Origins of World War One

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We are not used to seeing World War One as an ideological struggle, a battle between democracy and autocracy.
r one thing, 'remobilisation' of the French and British peoples by playing the democratic card helped rally support for the war in 1917-18 whilst, in Germany, support for the regime crumbled.

BBC - History - The Origins of World War One

IR

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Avalon Project - Washington's Farewell Address 1796

NATO - Opinion: Speech, 12-Feb.-2009

NATO - News: Strasbourg – Kehl Summit strengthens Transatlantic Link and looks at NATO’s future challenges, 04-Apr.-2009

NATO

Pettman.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Wibben.pdf (application/pdf Object)

24 hours in Paris: Save time for a smooch in the city of romance - CNN.com

NATO: News & Videos about NATO - CNN.com

Obama: Europe faces greater terror threat than U.S. - CNN.com

Bioethics

JSTOR: International Organization, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Winter, 1975), pp. 37-60

Jihad vs. McWorld - The Atlantic (March 1992)

Power and Interdependence in the Information Age

Making the World "Safe for Democracy": Woodrow Wilson Asks for War

Machiavelli: The Prince: Chapter XVIII

Machiavelli: The Prince: Chapter XVII

Machiavelli: The Prince: Chapter V

BBC - History - The Origins of World War One

BBC - History - The Origins of World War One

BBC - History - The Origins of World War One

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