Niall Ferguson Quotes
The United States should be devoting a larger percentage of its vast resources to making the world safe for capitalism and democracy ... the proper role of an imperial America is to establish these institutions where they are lacking, if necessary ... by military force. Imposing democracy on all the world's "rogue states" would not push the U. S. Defense budget much above 5 percent of GDP... establishing the rule of law in such countries would pay a long run dividend as their trade revised and expanded.
Critics of this idea ask what we do when the minority of fanatic terrorists attack our troops and officials who have "brought" the rule of law to a "rogue state" like Somalia. Suicide bombers and others who want only the rule of Islamic Sharia law as opposed to rule of our law.
Niall Ferguson, Historian, 2001
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While Wilson is often thought of a humanist and a man committed to World peace and national rights of independence, he was also a committed economic imperialist. See {585454} for another example.
This is one of the first recorded recognitions of globalization as an economic force.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising. Although a century ago, Connolly captured the centrality of the development problem of every Third World County trying to compete in a global economy. The irony is that Ireland, long after achieving Independence, had the lowest standard of living in Europe for years. The great Irish breakthrough came as the result of the government making a huge national investment providing the capital for giving all of Ireland access to the Internet and passed laws for the information age. The Irish people took it from there. They leapfrogged wealthier nations and found customers all over the globe because they had the infrastructure to reach the rest of the globe just as fast as anyone else. See {589760} for Connolly’s idea to bring technology of the time to Ireland. The Irish information revolution was accomplished by using this idea for information technology instead of farm technology.
See {633152} for more of the reasoning for this point. “Neocon” is a shortened form of “neoconservative”. At the time the neoconservatives were advocating use of military intervention in the Middle East. Munich was the German city in which British Prime Minister notoriously tried to appease Hitler and the Nazis. This led to WWII and has become the historical icon for appeasement of a powerful tyrant and the cost of such.
Zhou , Deng and other Chinese senior leaders carefully studied failures of 200th Century Communist nation economies from Russia to North Korea, and observed the successes of not only the United States and Western Europe, but South= Korea and Thailand å well and decided to transform to a capitalist style market and competitive economy. Zhou organized a cruse on which they invited Western economists and political economists to advise on how to make the transformation. Th Chinese took many of the Western ideas, placed them into a Chinese context, added some ideas of their own and proceeded ahead with the largest and most seectaculkar economic transformation and development in World history.
Niall Campbell Ferguson is a Scottish historian and the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics and New York University, visiting professor at New College of the Humanities and senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford.
