benign global hegemony

Back in 1996, in a famous Foreign Affairs article co-authored with William Kristol, Kagan identified “benign global hegemony” as the proper basis for US policy. ... Permanent dominion was the goal. To settle for anything less, Kagan and Kristol wrote, was to embrace “a policy of cowardice and dishonor.”
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George W. Bush took that road.

Andrew Bacevich: The Duplicity of the Ideologues

вертикаль власти, иначе говоря. доброжелательная. или доброкачественная.

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see also pre-eminence

еще про dishonor: "Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war." - W. Churchill via