By James Robert Huntley

After a turbulent century characterised by means of significant bloodshed, but in addition through the unfold of democratic govt and humane values, the writer means that the good democracies - led by way of Britain, France, Germany, Japan and the USA - should still shape an intercontinental neighborhood of democracies - a Pax Democratica based on the writer. He argues that one of these union will culminate centuries of evolution in global order: from empires to balance-of-power Realpolitik , extra lately from cooperative foreign associations to an period of supranational groups, composed of likeminded peoples and arranged round democratic ideas.

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Depending on a society’s traditions and makeup, it can be easier or harder to practise democracy. Sometimes a failed democracy can be recreated, sometimes not. But in the long run, the establishment of democratic ideals, practices and institutions is the only safe system, domestic or international . . and not just for any particular people under the microscope of political science, but for all humankind. Everyone, everywhere has a great stake in the evolution towards democracy of all states and peoples in the world.

Members of the military and diplomatic establishments take ‘national interests’ more seriously than the general public. But if you were to ask US officials, for example, why intervention in the Bosnian situation was not in America’s ‘national interest’ from 1991 to 1994, but then became a matter of vital interest in 1995, they might be hard-pressed. What made the Yugoslav case in 1991 different from the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, which precipitated massive US and Allied intervention? Why was one in the national interest, but not the other?

He said, ‘in the organizations for western cooperation which we have evolved among us, countries are generally disposed to relinquish particular interests from time to time without necessarily having a prospect of immediate return, in the expectation that others will be co-operative when their turn comes. It is a habit of give and take which western countries are beginning to acquire. ’ . Reported in NATO Letter, February 1964 Some underbrush must be cleared away. ‘National interest’ is the prime candidate.

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