lbo-talk-digest V1 #7459

[Quenby Alclaire]

"It would be a mistake to identify
the United State with the Pax Americana itself.  Now, one of the
significant
differences between these two "empires" is in direct versus indirect
conduct
of their affairs.  When I speak of conduction the affairs, one should
attribute to voluntarism.  This goes back to the characteristics of these
two historical systems.  Why the naked force of colonialism could not be
effective?  Because it was no longer historically acceptable.  Why the
"middle ground" system of Pax Americana went out business (roughly between
mid- to late 1970s)?  Because of the unintended forces of globalization (I
do not mean corporate globalization).  With the system gone, speaking of
hegemony is rubbish."

so....anyone know what he is talking about? apparently some system went
out of business in the seventies......were the client state relationships
structurally different in the seventies than now?

~M.E.

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