The Unipolar concert: The North-South divide trumps transatlantic differences

World Policy Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-42

  Ayoob, Mohammed ^a   Zierler, Matthew ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 18444369652     PISSN: 07402775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/07402775-2005-2001     Document Type: Article

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3. This counters Robert Kagan's argument that "on major strategic and international questions today, Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus" (Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order [New York: Knopf, 2003], p. 3).
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12. This is what Hedley Bull aptly termed "the revolt against the West" that went beyond issues of politics and economics to the norms and rules governing international society. See "The Revolt Against the West," in The Expansion of International Society, ed. Hedley Bull and Adam Watson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), pp. 217-28.
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24. and Kagan, Of Paradise and Power.
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37. and Robert Jackson, The Global Covenant: Human Conduct in a World of States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). For a sophisti cated solidaristic conception of international society.
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39. James Brooke, "North Korea Says It Has Nuclear Weapons and Rejects Talks," New York Times, February 10, 2005.