Open Access60 jahre NATO
Author(s) -
Tobias ten Brink
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
prokla
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2700-0311
pISSN - 0342-8176
DOI - 10.32387/prokla.v38i153.456
Subject(s) - alliance , political science , nothing , hierarchy , power (physics) , order (exchange) , international relations , democracy , capitalism , political economy , capital (architecture) , world order , economic system , sociology , law , economics , politics , geography , philosophy , physics , archaeology , epistemology , finance , quantum mechanics
The NATO Alliance is being adapted to a new international situation which is quite the opposite of any harmonious "global village" or "democratic peace". The member states, the most powerful agents within the competitive machinery of global capitalism, are propelling an arms race and a spiral of violence. The Western power elites all agree to use hard power in order to secure the world order and the conditions for an efficient capital accumulation but are at the same time at loggerheads with each other in respect to the hierarchy in the creation of this order. The new US administration will presumably contribute nothing to any serious detente in international relations.