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To: Iceberg who wrote (14194)	8/27/1999 4:42:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) of 17770

Ice, I've just digged out more 'amazing stuff' for you..... To help you to grasp the ideological mismatch between Continental Europe and the US: theatlantic.com Excerpt: A truly global economy is probably impossible to achieve. In fact, as the Princeton political economist Robert Gilpin has said, "what today we call international economic interdependence runs so counter to the great bulk of human experience that only extraordinary changes and novel circumstances could have led to its innovation and triumph over other means of economic exchange." Historically, to secure international capitalism a dominant power must guarantee the security of other states, so that they need not pursue autarkic policies or form trading blocs to improve their relative positions. This suspension of international politics through hegemony has been the fundamental aim of U.S. foreign policy since the 1940s. The real story of that policy is not the thwarting of and triumph over the Soviet threat but the effort to impose an ambitious economic vision on a recalcitrant world. [...]

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