Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-first CenturyCollier Books, 1994 - 240 pagini As we rush toward the 21st century, former Director of the National Security Council Brzezinski takes time out to issue an "urgent warning" about the current state of global politics. He believes we are in peril of repeating the "megadeath" of this century--a century that has witnessed the slaughter of 187 million people in the name of politics. |
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Pagina 61
... Democracy has been a weapon of the poor and the many against the few and the well - to - do ever since it surfaced in ancient Athens . The liberal component , where it has existed , was an attempt to gain protection against arbitrary ...
... Democracy has been a weapon of the poor and the many against the few and the well - to - do ever since it surfaced in ancient Athens . The liberal component , where it has existed , was an attempt to gain protection against arbitrary ...
Pagina 75
... Democracy may be the West's central contribution , but de- mocracy is a vessel that has to be filled with content . The demo- cratic political process , the constitutional system , the sovereignty of law are all peerless guarantees for ...
... Democracy may be the West's central contribution , but de- mocracy is a vessel that has to be filled with content . The demo- cratic political process , the constitutional system , the sovereignty of law are all peerless guarantees for ...
Pagina 172
... democracy and to create a free market , both at the same time . That advice is being ab- sorbed , and even dogmatized , by an elite that has relatively little grasp of the sensitive connection between culture and econom- ics , and one ...
... democracy and to create a free market , both at the same time . That advice is being ab- sorbed , and even dogmatized , by an elite that has relatively little grasp of the sensitive connection between culture and econom- ics , and one ...
Cuprins
The Century of Megadeath | 7 |
The Centrality of Metamyth | 19 |
Coercive Utopia | 32 |
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