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Essay on Globalization
In international affairs the USA displays growing unilateralism. International development policies have been constrained by the Washington consensus. The United States fails to sign on to major greening protocols. Until recently the USA was perennially in arrears in United Nations dues. On several occasions (such as Nicaragua and Panama) the USA has not followed international legal standards and it ignores the International Court if its verdict goes against it. American policies contribute to the enduring stalemate in the Middle East. Take any global problem and the United States is both the major player and major bottleneck. It is a reasonable question to ask whether this is just a matter of current US administrations or whether more profound dynamics are at work.
If we take seriously global problems and therefore also the need for global reform (such as the provision of global public goods and the regulation of international finance) and then turn to the question of political implementation we naturally arrive at the door of the United States. Progressive social forces and international institutions the world over make proposals for global reform, whose list is considerable and growing, but without US cooperation they stand little chance of being implemented. The world leader, then, turns out to be the global bottleneck and in this light American conditions and problems become world problems.
The difficulties are to avoid mistaking American ideologies for realities, to avoid the trap of impressionism based on ignorance when everyone thinks they ‘know’ the USA on account of its large cultural radius, and to be concise while the data are vast. The literature on ‘America’, the largest and foremost developed country, is vast and multivocal. This part of the treatment is meant as a précis organized in brief vignettes. The second part probes the international ramifications of American exceptionalism....
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