In this space last year (“Carte Blanche, Bête Noire,” Winter 2000), I described some aspects of the emerging European and worldwide movement against corporate-driven globalization, ending on an optimistic note (“it’s . . . a great time to be politically …
You’re sitting there reading Dissent in the new millennium and I’m sitting here at the end of September 1999 with carte blanche from the editors: “Say what you like.” Easy enough for them—but what happened on the way to 2000? …
In Greek the hegemon is the leader, and from there it’s just a linguistic hop, skip, and jump to the notion of rule, authority, and dominance expressed by the word “hegemony.” Traditionally, the term was reserved for states. In the …
Stanley Hoffmann’s title “What Should U.S. Foreign Policy Be?” confines him to writing a prescriptive piece and far be it from me to fault an author for not doing what he didn’t set out to do. Still, I found myself …
No phenomenon lasting for a decade deserves to be labeled a “crisis.” It has thus become acutely embarrassing to speak in 1992 of the third-world debt “crisis.” Certainly a chronic condition; arguably a cancer; some even say a conspiracy—but a …
