William Wendle Pfaff war ein amerikanischer Journalist und Publizist, der sich einen Namen als politischer Kommentator und Kritiker der amerikanischen Außenpolitik machte. Wikipedia
„Der Nationalismus gebärdet sich dann am wildesten, wenn er enttäuscht wird.“
Die Furien des Nationalismus, Eichbornverlag 1994, S. 215"
"Nationalism is most ferocious when it is frustrated, as it had been in the old Yugoslav federation." - The Wrath of Nations. Civilization and the Furies of Nationalism. Simon & Schuster, 1993. p. 199 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=oKaFAAAAMAAJ&q=ferocious
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Quelle: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 63.
Quelle: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 21.
“The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.”
Quelle: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 155.
Quelle: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 52.
“The frontier that remains is is the interior one, the most forbidding and mysterious frontier.”
Quelle: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 7, The Possibility of Extravagant Waste, p. 189.
“Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.”
Quelle: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 6, Japan, China and the Making of nations, p. 164.
Quelle: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 31
“Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.”
Quelle: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 146.
“America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.”
Quelle: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 1, Dead Stars, p. 11.
“The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.”
Quelle: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 28.
Quelle: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 23.
Quelle: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 3, Central Europe, p. 70.
Quelle: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 138.
Quelle: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 149.
Quelle: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 1, Dead Stars, p. 3.
“One cannot say that it will never happen again, or that it cannot happen.”
Quelle: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 4, The Soviet Union, p. 107.
“We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.”
Quelle: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 27.
Quelle: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 147.
