The exhaustion of the international order
The American Spectator
by James G. Poulos
03/14/06
Across the board, on all the major issues of the day, international consensus has disappeared. Sometimes even individual crises and cases cannot meet the basic standard of unity required of the planet by the post-World War Two international order. The case of Iran is as close to that unity as we have come since the first Gulf War. But the dance of doom in which we are presently engaged over a nuclear Tehran illustrates how unpopular the status quo has become -- even this status quo, which is brimming with contradictions and lacunae. How bad is it? The experts, as is their wont, differ -- we even lack consensus on how much consensus we've got...
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9526
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by James G. Poulos
03/14/06
Across the board, on all the major issues of the day, international consensus has disappeared. Sometimes even individual crises and cases cannot meet the basic standard of unity required of the planet by the post-World War Two international order. The case of Iran is as close to that unity as we have come since the first Gulf War. But the dance of doom in which we are presently engaged over a nuclear Tehran illustrates how unpopular the status quo has become -- even this status quo, which is brimming with contradictions and lacunae. How bad is it? The experts, as is their wont, differ -- we even lack consensus on how much consensus we've got...
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9526
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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