00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000002714 09777/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09777/MKRI-P/XI-2008 20221110083443 0010-0520002714 221110################|##########|#eng## 0-349-11743-8 eng 321.03 321.03 MEY d Meyer, Karl Dust of Empire : The Race for Supremacy in the Asian Heartland / Karl Meyer London : Cambridge University Press, 2003 xxxiii,254p. : : illus, ; 22cm. Indeks : p.241-254 p.227-236 The 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. Empires 09777/MKRI-P/XI-2008