The Empire Dialogues: The U.S. and World Order

In the first of a series of presentations entitled The Empire Dialogues, this panel features Niall Ferguson, Ken Jowitt, and Steven Weber examining U.S. policy and the implications of U.S. choices for world order and international justice. Series: "Empire Dialogues" [1/2004] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 8373]

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Education

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• International
• relations
• U.S.
• foreign
• policy
• empire

[Msgrv32]

Nialls is kickass

[dasawibestill]

I bet Steven Weber feels quite foolish with his US economic indistructability theory....."nothing can stop the US economic engine(paraphrasing)"......wel­l its 2009 and its taking some time for this economy to turn around

[90naggy]

I don't think its easy to say that europe will never catch up with america, it already has when considered collectively, its has a bigger GDP, larger/equal military, larger population, more major cities, greater communications, a space agency, major financial centres, more financial stock exchanges and so on. Americans are of european descent, adopt european culture and political institutions, speak a european language, adopt european legal systems, use european style education system etc

[Damagicus]

that first dude sounds like an idiot. idc how many pieces of paper he has hanging on his walls....jowitt lol w/e

[toqtaqiya]

He's awfully biased in favor of Western capitalism.

[RedTyphoon1]

@emotionalinvalid Iraq was not a democracy it was Kingdom/Monarchy under the Hasemites and Iraq was a client state of the Soviet Union not the US MI Complex. Socialism? like the Soviets invading Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Soviet Union was an Imperial power. Socialism is worse than Capitalism, India and China rising because of Capitalism not Socialism. Socialism makes countries poorer than is prone to dictatorship.

[emotionalinvalid]

ken jowitt:vicarious soldier(i.e.pussy). he e.g. takes not into account that saddam was our boy. our corporate/military complex put him in there in the 1958 to destroy Iraq's nascent democracy, just like the complex overthrew Iran's democracy in 1953. in short what it is all about is privatizing countries whose resources we are addicted to. Socialism resurgent in once ravaged by cia and its dictators latin america. if the world is to survive social democracy "will bury imperial captialism"

[DigitalLiverpool]

These are suppose to be experts and understand the outcomes of foreign policy, but it still is so shocking they think everything should be the american way. its 2011 now and middle east is falling apart. I would hate the world to be like amecia.

[mynoon1999]

@rasmuslm because the eu is fact thats why usa is trying to brake it with economic war. china has huge problem andis covering them up with exports any 1 of them can win and 1 of them can brake the other. the british empire proves this it broke india and china they where the 2 economic and military hyperpower there for in this war the eu political power will overcome the other and thats what i hope will happen

[mynoon1999]

@infokemp i see we like the same historians and vids hahaha. i think nialls point about roman can not be compared to the usa because rome had not problem calling it's self an empire and rome was not a democracy. i would rather have 130,000 soldiers than 700,000 men. nialls points about the british and usa empire made sence and the ownly empire that can compare to the usa is britian and he know more than anybody else about our empire. i have sent him a message about the british empire. thanks