Re: NYTimes.com Article: All Roads Lead to D.C.

Thanks Albert.

I have not seen the article, but I shall look it up.

 I am perplexed by "America's global percent of almost everything economic".
What does this mean? The 'decline' is solely relative economic growth is
slower than some others?

Regards

Jonathan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Albert Bergesen" <albert@email.arizona.edu>
To: "Jonathan Davis" <jonathan.davis@lineone.net>; "Boris Stremlin"
<bstremli@binghamton.edu>
Cc: "WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK" <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: NYTimes.com Article: All Roads Lead to D.C.


> Two answers:
>
> 1.  The praise is summed up in the NY Times Article posted by Stremlin
>
> 2.  America's global percent of almost everyting economic has declined
> since the 50s/60s.  Part is the reemergence of Europe after the war and
the
> other is the re-rise (Gunder's brilliant ReOrient book) of East Asian in
> global production, and part is American decline by itself.
>
> ab
>
>  10:14 AM 4/8/02 +0100, Jonathan Davis wrote:
> >Two questions:
> >
> >1. Who are singing praise to the "American Empire"?
> >2. Where is the evidence of American decline (or American is declining in
> >what way relative to what)?
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Jonathan
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Boris Stremlin" <bstremli@binghamton.edu>
> >To: "Albert Bergesen" <albert@email.arizona.edu>
> >Cc: "WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK" <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
> >Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 7:13 AM
> >Subject: Re: NYTimes.com Article: All Roads Lead to D.C.
> >
> >
> >> On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Albert Bergesen wrote:
> >>
> >> > Empire is a manifestation of decline.  It isn't a stragegy of ascent
or
> >> > mature hegemonic dominance. Those who sing the praise of American
Empire
> >> > are whistling in the dark, except they don't know that the lights are
> >going
> >> > out.
> >>
> >> This may be true, but the question is how many other lights they'll
knock
> >> out before they go sailing quietly into the night.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Boris Stremlin
> >> bstremli@binghamton.edu
> >>
> >
> >
> Albert J. Bergesen
> Dept. of Sociology
> Univ. of Arizona
> Tucson, AZ 85721
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