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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

james22h - 08:28pm Jul 27, 2001 EST (#7519 of 7543)

great idea, let's do it.

lunarchick - 08:46pm Jul 27, 2001 EST (#7520 of 7543)
lunarchick@www.com

James - be more specific!

Didn't find Alan Roberts here ... i think you have him travelling the USA this Summer Break :)

rshowalter - 08:51pm Jul 27, 2001 EST (#7521 of 7543)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Russians: While you're at it, defend yourself, in the ways that matter. You don't need nukes to do it, and can't use them for much, either. Neither can the US.

Find ways to make the world better and safer, and there will be plenty of customers and potential partners who want to deal with you.

You don't have to take any real military chances to do this.

lunarchick - 09:07pm Jul 27, 2001 EST (#7522 of 7543)
lunarchick@www.com

[An Adam Roberts (?) can be found. ]

What do International Relations folks reflect on?
These this:

The course will focus upon seven remarkable "redirections" of international politics --

Reemergence of ethno-linguistically exclusivist nationalisms (as contrasted with once-dominant internationalist ideologies of communism and capitalism)

Rapid and irregular proliferation of the capacity to build weapons of mass destruction (as contrasted with once-effective multilateral programs to inhibit the proliferation of nuclear and other "high" technologies during the Cold War)

Economic protectionism and a return to thinking of international economic policy as an instrument of coercion and relative national advantage (as contrasted with former Western elite support for freer trade for stimulating global economic growth within the Bretton Woods system)

Reassertion of a global span control by the United States, acting alone and in consort with other Great Powers within the UN system (while, at the same time, the U.S. radically reduces foreign military bases and military budgets, and requires cost-sharing for its police efforts)

Erosion of the effective content of state "sovereignty" under the triple attacks of the ideology of basic human rights, functional requirements of economic interpenetration among the OECD nations, and persistent regional conflicts which recurrently unleash floods of refugees.

Increasing acceptance of the reality and rapidity of worldwide change in the atmosphere and oceans, due in some degree to patterns of human habitation and consumption, with likely harmful effects upon the quality of life.

Increasing acceptance of the reality and rapidity of the worldwide spread of new diseases due in some degree to patterns of human habitation and behavior

lunarchick - 09:17pm Jul 27, 2001 EST (#7523 of 7543)
lunarchick@www.com

Adam Roberts ! ~~!!

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rshowalter - 09:27pm Jul 27, 2001 EST (#7524 of 7543)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

"redirections" of international politics --

degradations and retreats would be more like it.

lunarchick - 09:43pm Jul 27, 2001 EST (#7525 of 7543)
lunarchick@www.com

Kate! - wasn't she for taming?

rshowalter - 10:12pm Jul 27, 2001 EST (#7526 of 7543)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Yes, but The Taming of the Shrew is NOT PC !

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