Mahmood Mamdani Quotes
Power must be held accountable. If it is not held accountable, it will wreak havoc on all why try to hold it accountable. Global power must be held accountable globally.
Mahmood Mamdani, Ugandan Historian & Political Scientist, Director of the Institute of African Studies, C-SPAN, Book TV, April 15, 2005
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The Prime Minister was coping with a scandal where there was an incident where British soldiers had abused Iraq prisoners of war. They were being held to account criminally.
This quotation is an excellent example of a kind of political statement that sounds terrific at first, but when you think about it, it is hard to determine what it means. It is clearly some kind of criticism of international and multinational organizations but it is impossible to know what the candidate is proposing. He does not urge that the US not participate in the multilateral organizations? He warns that when we do participate, we should not cede our moral authority to them. But no one can determine had a sovereign nation like the United State cedes any moral or other kind of authority by participating in these organizations.
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Mahmood Mamdani, FBA is a Ugandan academic, author, and political commentator. He currently serves as the Chancellor of Kampala International University, Uganda. He is the director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and the Professor of Anthropology, Political Science and African Studies at Columbia University.
