Iraq Reviews > The US, Democratization, and Grand Strategy
[Discord and Elaboration] Yesterday I mentioned the new blog America Abroad which is essentially the international relations arm of TPMCafe. John Ikenberry, an esteemed professor of IR at Princeton, had an interesting piece the other day on the seeming shift from a focus on terrorism to democratization by the Bush administration. It was a post in response to one by Anne Marie Slaughter--also of Princeton--who argued that the administration had not foresaken the fight against terrorists for a crusade of democractization, but rather the latter had subsumed the former.
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[Duckofminerva.blogspot.com] The Duck of Minerva: The US, Democratization, and Grand Strategy: He notes that, "looking into the future, it seems all too clear that small groups of angry and determined extremists will find it increasingly easy to obtain chemical, biological or nuclear capabilities and unleash them upon the civilized world." The question is how to deal with this threat. By focusing on democratization the Bush administration is answering this question by establishing a link between politically and economically underdeveloped or failed states. Battling extremism is hard enough, but it can be made easier if developed, politically transparent states exist which deprive these groups of resources and staging grounds.
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