THE NEW LIBERAL IMPERIALISM

OK, after several days of absence, here I am again. The article I'm going to post is an old one. Exactly 14 years old. However, the subject of this article is still actual. Moreover, my country, the Region, and even broader have been living this article for about 25 years. Ever-since the Fall of the Berlin Wall. So, read it, and enjoy. It is very instructive. The guy who wrote this text is an important Pommy. The geopolitical adviser of one Anthony Charles Lynton "Tonny" Blair, an ex Prime minister of PommyLand and one Catherine Margaret Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, GCMG, the High European Commission Official.  

Intro by LG

Sir Robert Cooper (right) with Edita Tahiri and one Lirim
Greiçevci two Shiptars in London on 18 February 2013
during the fifth anniversary of so called independence
celebration of marionette false state of "Kosovo", that 
has been establish by the NATO occupier for  Shiptar 
national minority armed rebels and  terrorists on the 
Serbian occupied territories of Kosovo and Metohija 
Province. 

Senior British diplomat Robert Cooper has helped to shape British Prime Minister Tony Blair's calls for a new internationalism and a new doctrine of humanitarian intervention which would place limits on state sovereignty. Cooper's call for a new liberal imperialism and admission of the need for double standards in foreign policy have outraged the left but the essay offers a rare and candid unofficial insight into the thinking behind British strategy on Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond…

In 1989 the political systems of three centuries came to an end in Europe: the balance-of-power and the imperial urge. That year marked not just the end of the Cold War, but also, and more significantly, the end of a state system in Europe which dated from the Thirty Years War. September 11 showed us one of the implications of the change.

To understand the present, we must first understand the past, for the past is still with us. International order used to be based either on hegemony or on balance. Hegemony came first. In the ancient world, order meant empire. Those within the empire had order, culture and civilisation. Outside it lay barbarians, chaos and disorder. The image of peace and order through a single hegemonic power centre has remained strong ever since. Empires, however, are ill-designed for promoting change. Holding the empire together - and it is the essence of empires that they are diverse - usually requires an authoritarian political style; innovation, especially in society and politics, would lead to instability. Historically, empires have generally been static.