From: "Ali Rizvi" <ali_m_rizvi-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: HAB: Some relavent quotes
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 05:17:53 +0000



As an appendix to my earlier post on America, Europe and Habermas I beg the 
consideration of the following quotes:

1)“America in every important respect …. has the predominant power to shape 
frameworks and influence outcomes. This implies that it can draw the limits 
within which others choose from a restricted list of options the 
restrictions being in large part a result of US decisions” (Strange 1989 p. 
169).

2)“What is emerging therefore is a non-territorial empire with its imperial 
capital in Washington, D.C. Where imperial capitals used to draw courtiers 
from outlying provinces, Washington draws lobbyists from outlying 
enterprises, outlying minority groups, and globally organized pressure 
groups… As in Rome, citizenship is not limited to a master race and the 
empire contains a mix of citizens with full legal and political rights, 
semicitizens and noncitizens like Rome’s slave population. Many of the 
semicitizens walk the streets of Rio or of Bonn, of London or Madrid, 
shoulder to shoulder with the noncitizens; no one can necessarily tell them 
apart by color or race or even dress. The semicitizens of the empire are 
many and widespread. They live for the most part in the great cites of the 
noncommunist world. They include many people employed by the large 
transnational corporations operating in the transnational production 
structure and serving as they are all very well aware, a global market. They 
include the people employed in transnational banks. They often include 
members of the ‘national’ armed forces, those that are trained, armed by, 
and dependent on the armed forces of the United States. They include many 
academics in medicine, natural sciences, and social studies like management 
and economics who look to U.S. professional associations and to U.S. 
universities as the peer group in whose eyes they wish to shine and to 
excel. They include people in the press and media for whom U.S. technology 
and U.S. examples have shown the way, (Strange, 1989 p. 167).

3)“the three great imperatives of (US) geopolitical strategy are to prevent 
collusion and maintain dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries 
pliant and to keep the barbarians from coming together’ (Brzezinski, 
Zbigniew, 1997 p.40).

* Strange S. (1989) ‘Towards A Theory of Transnational Empire” in F.O. 
Czempeil and J. Rosenau (ed.) Global Changes and Theoretical Challenges 
Lexington p. 153-180

* Brerzesnki Z. (1997) The Grand Chessboard New York Colombia University 
Press.

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