01295     2200253   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056020001800097041000800115082001100123084001700134100001600151245008200167260004800249300003800297500002300335504001400358520058200372650001200954990002500966990002500991990002501016INLIS00000000000271420221110083443  a0010-0520002714221110                |          | eng    a0-349-11743-8  aeng  a321.03  a321.03 MEY d0 aMeyer, Karl14aDust of Empire :bThe Race for Supremacy in the Asian Heartland /cKarl Meyer  aLondon :bCambridge University Press,c2003  axxxiii,254p. :b: illus, ;c22cm.  aIndeks : p.241-254  ap.227-236  aThe year 2003 was for many Americans a time of wonder and worry, and for some of us, consternation. Its events confirmed that the winds of a radical new doctrine had sweptthrough Washington, a doctrine that has yet to find a suitable name, but whose effects can be clearly discerned in the war in Iraq and its aftermath. For the first time, the United States claimed the self-validating right to wage wars of choice, not only on grounds of potential future threats to national security, but to promote, even implant, a political and economic system deemed a universal template. 4aEmpires  a09777/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a09777/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a09777/MKRI-P/XI-2008