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The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
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“Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts as if its central political goal is to become the worlds most comfortable retirement home. Too set in its ways, it fears multicultural diversity”
― The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
― The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
“Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire. Russia without Ukraine can still strive for imperial status, but it would then become a predominantly Asian imperial state, more likely to be drawn into debilitating conflicts with aroused Central Asians, who would then be resentful of the loss of their recent independence and would be supported by their fellow Islamic states to the south.”
― The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
― The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
“Perhaps the highest compliment that the world pays to the centrality of the democratic process in American global hegemony is the degree to which foreign countries are themselves drawn into the domestic American political bargaining. To the extent that they can, foreign governments strive to mobilize those Americans with whom they share a special ethnic or religious identity. Most foreign governments also employ American lobbyists to advance their case, especially in Congress, in addition to approximately one thousand special foreign interest groups registered as active in America’s capital. American ethnic communities also strive to influence U.S. foreign policy, with the Jewish, Greek, and Armenian lobbies standing out as the most effectively organized”
― The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
― The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
“Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains. Its fate confirmed a scholar’s apt observation that [e]mpires are inherently politically unstable because subordinate units almost always prefer greater autonomy, and counter-elites in such units almost always act, upon opportunity, to obtain greater autonomy. In this sense, empires do not fall; rather, they fall apart, usually very slowly, though sometimes remarkably quickly.”
― The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
― The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
“This remarkable economic dynamism was fostered by a culture that favored experimentation and innovation. America’s political institutions and free market economy created unprecedented opportunities for ambitious and iconoclastic inventors, who were not inhibited from pursuing their personal dreams by archaic privileges or rigid social hierarchies. In brief, national culture was uniquely congenial to economic growth, and by attracting and quickly assimilating the most talented individuals from abroad, the culture also facilitated the expansion of national power.”
― The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
― The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
“Russian commentators welcomed this development, viewing it as a positive shift in the global correlation of power and as an appropriate response to America’s sponsorship of NATO’s expansion. Some even sounded gleeful that the Sino-Russian alliance would give America its deserved comeuppance. However, a coalition allying Russia with both China and Iran can develop only if the United States is shortsighted enough to antagonize China and Iran simultaneously.”
― The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
― The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
“However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as its access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.”
― The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
― The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
“Geopolitical pivots are the states whose importance is derived not from their power and motivation but rather from their sensitive location and from the consequences of their potentially vulnerable condition for the behavior of geostrategic players.”
― The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
― The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
“La falta de confianza se ha intensificado debido a la desilusión generalizada con las consecuencias del fin de la guerra fría. En lugar de un «nuevo orden mundial» basado en el consenso y en la armonía”
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“hombre del siglo XX se ha vuelto menos seguro de sí mismo que su antecesor del siglo XIX. Ha experimentado en carne propia los oscuros poderes de la historia. Cosas que parecían pertenecer al pasado han vuelto a aparecer: fanatismo religioso”
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“La democracia es contraria a la movilización imperial. Desde luego”
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“De ahí que los Estados Unidos no sólo son la primera y la única verdadera superpotencia global sino que”
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“También corresponde a los Estados Unidos eliminar toda incertidumbre con respecto al propio compromiso estadounidense con la política de una sola China”
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“El pluralismo geopolítico en Eurasia en general no será ni posible ni estable sin una profundización de la relación estratégica entre los Estados Unidos y China.”
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“los Estados Unidos deberían usar su influencia en Europa para presionar a favor de la futura admisión de Turquía en la UE y deberían esforzarse en tratar a Turquía como a un Estado europeo”
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“Los beneficios de un desarrollo regional acelerado basado en la inversión exterior alcanzarían también a las provincias rusas adyacentes”
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“No cabe duda de que si Europa no se vuelve más unida es susceptible de desunirse más. Por consiguiente”
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“Una Europa políticamente definida es también esencial para lograr la progresiva asimilación de Rusia en un sistema de cooperación global.”
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“La tarea más inmediata es asegurarse de que ningún Estado o combinación de Estados obtenga la capacidad de expulsar a los Estados Unidos de Eurasia o de limitar significativamente su decisivo papel de árbitro.”
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“Es posible que los riesgos para la estabilidad global resultantes aumenten aún más debido a las perspectivas de una degradación más generalizada de la condición humana.”
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“Ningún Estado-nación puede medirse con los Estados Unidos en las cuatro dimensiones clave de poder (militar”
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“La manera en que los Estados Unidos manipulen y hagan reconciliarse a los principales jugadores geoestratégicos del tablero euroasiático y la manera en que gestionen la relación con los pivotes geopolíticos clave de Eurasia serán fundamentales para lograr una primacía global estadounidense durable y estable.”
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
“La primacía global estadounidense es única en su alcance y en su carácter. Es una nueva clase de hegemonía que refleja muchos de los rasgos del sistema democrático estadounidense: es pluralista”
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
― El gran tablero mundial / The Grand Chessboard: La supremacia estadounidense y sus imperativos geoestrategicos / American Primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
