Mary Kaldor: American Military vs Cosmopolitanism
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Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance with the London School of Economics argues that the victory achieved by the United States and its allies in World War II has created a myth that military power equals strength. In today's world, a cosmopolitan approach may be more effective. Series: "Humanitas" [6/2004] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 8751]
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"We can all be united, without borders that separate us legislatively, through a free market." Are you in favour of anarcho-capitalism? Have you read Hobbes. Do you know that Hobbes was scared about the prospect of the emancipation of the capitalists, he considered the capitalist urge to be the worst of all human desires, and that's why he advocated a leviathan, in other words a tyranny over the capitalists, as a new secular age came about and men lost a way to be good..
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"The state system Europeans fashioned has not always existed. It will not endure forever...The only real answer is to turn the immense power of national states away from war and towards the creation of justice, personal security, and democracy" Charles Tilly, Capital and Coercion, 1992, p227. Kaldor mentions Tilly briefly and much of her understanding of the function of the state seems comes from him, and I'd say rightly so. We should question the rationality of the current system of states.
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To say that war caused our cosmopolitan attitudes is very different than saying that war was the ONLY way to achieve a cosmopolitan world. Inevitability only exists when looking back..
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skip to about 9:30 to avoid the introduction.....
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hello peter crann...........lol
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