Entfremdung in der Nato - der große Graben

[ThomasWach]

Ich poste hier einen Essay von Henry Kissinger, dem alten realistischen Haudagegen, der sich mit dem Verständnis und der konzeptionierung heutiger Herausforderungen für die nationale Sicherheit der USA befasst und damit auch ein Schlaglicht wirft auf die amerikanisch-europäischen Beziehungen:

The debate we need to have
By Henry A. Kissinger Published: April 7, 2008

The long-predicted American debate about national security policy has yet to occur.

Essentially tactical issues have overwhelmed the most important challenge a new administration will confront: how to distill a new international order from three simultaneous revolutions occurring around the globe.

These are a) the transformation of the traditional state system of Europe; b) the radical Islamist challenge to historic notions of sovereignty; and c) the drift of the center of gravity of international affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Conventional wisdom holds that disenchantment with President George W. Bush's alleged unilateralism is at the heart of European-American disagreements.
But it will become apparent soon after the change of administrations that the principal difference between the two sides of the Atlantic is that America is still a traditional nation-state whose people respond to calls for sacrifices on behalf of a much wider definition of the national interest than Europe's.
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Quelle:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/07/o...edkiss.php

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