Quotes About International order

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

Anne Harrington de Santana, has discerned that nuclear weapons have acquired the status of fetish objects; like the coin of the realm in relation to commodities, our glittering warheads have become markers of national power: "Just as access to wealth in the form of money determines an individual's opportunities and place in a social hierarchy, access to power in the form of nuclear weapons determines a state's opportunities and place in the international order.

Those who are opposed to nationalism, generally mean by this only that they are opposed to expansionist excesses, to violence and domination, and they desire national loyalty to be complemented and superseded by an international order and rule of law. But this, commendable though it may be, leaves the nationalist picture untouched, though it strives to ' go beyond it'.

International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case, the domination of liberal principles of economics, domestic politics, and international relations over other, nonliberal principles. It will last only as long as those who imposed it retain the capacity to defend it.

That raises the most serious threat to the liberal international order—which is not China's expansionism but America's abdication. The architect of this system is rapidly losing interest in its own creation.

We have to acknowledge and discuss with citizens that Germany needs to take on more responsibility. One of the questions is, 'Can we keep a functioning international order?'

By virtually every metric, the liberal international order has made the world healthier, wealthier, wiser, more secure and more tolerant than it has ever been.

If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order.

Since World War II, the rules-based international order created and maintained by the United States has benefited peoples around the globe and none more so than Americans here at home.

Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.

The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability.

the Turks, Iranians, Russians, Chinese, and the Sunni caliphs—the five powers bent on revising the international order and preparing to show their hand (each at its own pace) in challenge to the United States and Europe, have the distinctive characteristic of being custodians of the most legendary examples of empire and of being, right up to the present, passionately inhabited by this imperial memory.

mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.

America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order.

The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order.

United States would become the indispensable defender of the order Europe designed.

In every era, humanity produces demonic individuals and seductive ideas of repression. The task of statesmanship is to prevent their rise to power and sustain an international order capable of deterring them if they do achieve it.

What Nixon sought throughout the Cold War was a stable international order for a world filled with nuclear weapons.

Quando os Estados não são governados em toda a sua extensão é a própria ordem internacional ou regional que começa a desintegrar-se.

Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.

President Trump expressed one simple fact in his inaugural address that has eluded so many of America's recent presidents: his primary job is to lead the United States. Trump doesn't want to be the president of the international order, or president of some collective group of nations. He is—and only wants to be—the president of one country