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Many US and European leaders want to institute a "new world order." Hegemony is defined on Wikipedia as "Hegemony (pronounced [ˈhɘ.dʒɘ.mɘ.ni]) (Greek: ἡγεμονία hēgemonía) is the dominance of one group over other groups, with the implicit threat of force, to the extent that, for instance, the dominant party can dictate the terms of trade to its advantage; more broadly, cultural perspectives become skewed to favor the dominant group. The cultural control that hegemony asserts affects commonplace patterns of thought: hegemony controls the way new ideas are rejected or become naturalized in a process that subtly alters notions of common sense in a given society. Hegemony results in the empowerment of certain cultural beliefs, values, and practices to the submersion and partial exclusion of others. Hegemony influences the perspective of mainstream history, as history is written by the victors for a congruent readership."
Sounds famliar, doesn't it? Since the end of the Cold War, analysts have used the term "hegemony" to describe the United States' role as the sole superpower (the hyperpower) in the modern world. However, some scholars of international relations (such as John Mearsheimer) argue that the United States does not have true hegemony, since it lacks the resources to impose dominance over the entire globe. Also, China, India, and the European Union are considered by some to be emerging superpowers capable of competing with the U.S in their own regions, and, in the case of the EU, worldwide.

2007-07-02 02:20:31 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government Politics

Simply speaking, the US is as bad as Nazi Germany. We went to war with Iraq because he had ties with al-qaeda. Naturally, it would stop terrorism, right? As part of the justification for the war, the Bush Administration argued that Saddam Hussein had ties to al-Qaeda, and that his overthrow would lead to democratisation in the Middle East, decreasing terrorism overall. However, reports from the CIA, the U.S. State Department, the FBI, and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, as well as the investigations of foreign intelligence agencies found no evidence of an operational connection between the ties between Saddam and al-Qaeda. On the contrary, a consensus has developed among intelligence experts that the Iraq war has increased terrorism. Counterterrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna frequently refers to the invasion of Iraq as a "fatal mistake.

2007-07-02 03:51:34 · update #1

London's conservative International Institute for Strategic Studies concluded in 2004 that the occupation of Iraq had become "a potent global recruitment pretext" for jihadists and that the invasion "galvanised" al-Qaeda and "perversely inspired insurgent violence" there.[108] The U.S. National Intelligence Council concluded in a January 2005 report that the war in Iraq had become a breeding ground for a new generation of terrorists; David B. Low, the national intelligence officer for transnational threats, indicated that the report concluded that the war in Iraq provided terrorists with "a training ground, a recruitment ground, the opportunity for enhancing technical skills... There is even, under the best scenario, over time, the likelihood that some of the jihadists who are not killed there will, in a sense, go home, wherever home is, and will therefore disperse to various other countries." The Council's Chairman Robert L. Hutchings said, "At the moment, Iraq is a magnet for interna

2007-07-02 03:52:59 · update #2

international terrorist activity."[109] And the 2006 National Intelligence Estimate, which outlined the considered judgment of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, held that "The Iraq conflict has become the 'cause celebre' for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of US involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement

2007-07-02 03:53:30 · update #3

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According to your logic anyone who wants to change the world, is equivalent to Nazis. The patriots that led the American revolution, Nazis. Anyone who ever rebelled against the government could meet you definition. They wanted to dictate terms to their advantage, they used force (whether military, physical, or economic), they wanted dominance over the group that had previously been in power, and they most defiantly skewed prospectives in their favor. Gandhi, Mandela, Al Gore and his anti-global warming groups, all Nazis.

To actually answer you question, when Germany invaded Poland, no it did not institute a new order, the Nazi's simply expanded their sphere of influence.

2007-07-05 02:52:35 · answer #1 · answered by gerafalop 7 · 0 0

USA is epicenter of the World crisis, its decline is irreversible.Let me tell you that I love all this mess in the World,as Lenin said" Time of crisis is time of Wars and Revolutions" , the door opens from time to time...

2007-07-02 09:25:39 · answer #2 · answered by Señor Spok 1 · 0 3

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