Yves here. It’s Always PeriLous to Take with Some of the THEORIES ADVANCED in A Book Second-Hand, as in a Review. OM Neuburger Recaps from the Alfred McCoy Book, to govern the globe, looks to Be at a high level of mcCoy’s Argument and Plainly Stated, SO OUR DISAGREEMENT DOES NOT SEEM Liked to be Based on
McCoy Argues for the Durability, albeit with FORCE THAN EMPIRES. L Order Starting in 1815 as Distinct from the “Washington World System” that Began in 1945.
Howver, The Periode Depended Heavily Upon The System and (One Hates to Say It) Values of the British Empire, PARTICULARLY The Start Date at the End of the Napoleonic Wars, Which Happens to BE WHEN THE HAD ENTERED The Industrial Revolution and So the Power of the Power of Landowners Was Being Displaced by The Power of Merchants and Industrialist.
The Shared ELEMENT OF BOTH WORLD ORDERS INCLUDES:
Common Leagal Systems with A Very Number of Similar OF Legal Contracting Anies
Professional Bureaucracies. Before Niall Ferguson Started His Mind, He Wrote a Fine Book To Punch Above ITS INST FRANST FRANST FRANST FRANST FRANST FRANST WAS ABILITY TORROW MARKETS OT LOWER RATES THAT IN TURN RESULTED from ENGLAND HAVING Professional (as in salary) Tax Collectors, Versus France’s Corrupt Tax “FarMers”
Embrace of Financial Capitalism as Oppsed to Industrial Capitalism; with that Came Fierce Opposition to Communism
Use of English as the lingua franca
Protestantism and Protestant Values, Particularly Deferred Gratification; NFLUENCING/CONTROLLING VASSAL TERRITORIES
SEA POWERS THAT INVESTED IN Protecting Trade Trade Routes
THOSE OF YOU HOU HOU HOU HOU HOU HOU HOU HOURE some Osed to See the Washington Era as an Adaptation of the British Model, and Not a New World Order.
By Thomas Neuburger. Originally publiced at God’s Spies
As We Enter the Next Phase of the IMPERIAL WESTERN EXPERIMENT … As We WAIT FORL FIRL FIRL FIRL UNDERSTANDING OF THE PIVOT OUR PRESIDENT AKES … as We Watch Dismantled What Should Never, Perhaps, Have BeeN Built, It’s USFUL TAKE A LONG View of What We’ve Done IT, and How America’s Turn as King of the Place Was Thought Out and Managed. OUT; Wasn’t Very Well Managed.
This store is different that you may have home. ST HIS EGO SPEAKING. OR THAT HIS FINAL PUSH FOR TPP WAS JUST A BEG FOR POST-OFFICIAL WEALTH YES, THEY WERE THINGS; But the Were Both More. ONS OF The 19th Century Naval Officer Officer ALFRED THAYER MAHAN AND HAS BEEN FOLLOWED by US Minds from Before , During, and After World War II.
THAT STRATEGY: COMBINED “Big Island” of Europe and ASIA BY COASTS COASTS ANLAND POPULATION. TERN FORWARD BASES WERE AT ASIA’S Front Door.
TO DO THIS, We’ll take Looks Over The Book Pictured Above: Alfred McCoy’s to Govern The Globe. at I’m Called Above The “IMPERIAL WESTERN EXPERIMEMENT.” It Covers All the “World Orders”: The Iberian, Birthed in Portugal and Spain; ND the Next, What’s Coming for US, The Wolf or The Chinese, Whichever , And Probably Both.
THE STORY BEGINS in The Early 1400s and Starts Like this:
IF YOU READ THAT CAREFULLY, You See How Brutality is the Key to Success.
1415 Portugal Ventures Abroad, Capture Port of Ceuta, North Africa, and Massacring Muslims.
1441 Portugal’s Ships from Western Sahara with Firstment of African Slaves.
THE POPE GAVE PERMISSION in 1455, and the Race (and the Rape) Was on.
About World Orders
THERE’S ADIFFERENCE WORLD ORDERS AND WORLD EMPIRES. :
[From Chapter 1]
Despitee Their Awa of AWE-Inspiring Power, Empires Tend to Be Ephemeral Creations of An Individual Conqueror Like Alexander The Greateron Bonaparten at Fade Quickly After the Death or Defeat. By Contrast, World Orders ArE Much More Deeply Rooted, Resilient Global Systems Created by a convergence of economic, and geopolitical forces. On the Surface ICH ARE USLY THOSE WITH FORMAL EMPIRES or International Influence. Lacking The Souvereignty of Nations and the Raw Power of Empires, World Orders Are Essentially Broad AgreeMents About Among Nation-States and Their People, Lending THEM an amorphous.
At A Deeper Level, World Orders Entwine ThemSelves, Commission, and Values of Countles Society. PEOPLE SPEAK, THE LAWS THATER THEIR LIVES, and the WAYS THEY WORK, Worship, and Even Play. THEY ARE WOVEN INTO TIRE CIVILIZATION ON OF THE PAST Two Centuries Wass a Process, The Current World World Order is Is it Ultimate Product. World Orders Have Much LESS VISIBLE POWER THAN EMPIRES, But the More More Persistent. To Uproot Such a Deepded Global System TAKES An EXTRADINARY NT, Even a Catastrophe. Across the Span of Five Continents and Seven Centuries, A Series of Calamities — From The Devastating Epidemics OF 1350 Through The Coming Climate Crisis of 2050 -HAS Produced a Relentless Succession of RISING EMPIRES and FADING WORDERS.
… SINCE THE START OF THE EXPLORATION IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, SOME 90 EMPIRES, MAJOR and MinOR RS, However, The Have BeeN Just Three World Orders, All Arising in the West —THE Iberian Age After 1494, The British Imperial Era from 1815, and the Washington World System from 1945 to Perhaps Something Like 2030. [emphasis mine]
“Age of EXPLORATION” is Polite. Globally Expressed.
Why Study World Orders?
WeeRe Looking at the Because It’s Interesting. But More That, We Stand at a Pivot from ORDER TO THE NEXT, from WORSE Egration.
• What do thue orders Look Like? On What Strategies are they Based?
• What’s America’s Contribution? What make the US UNIQUE?
• and Perhaps the Biggest Questions of Them All: Was The Whole Thing, The Project, Worth Doing To Start with? And Why Did It Start In The West?
Perhaps The Original Sin, as It Were, Was The Proto-Indo-European “Sky Father” God, Dyḗus PH₂TḗR (“Zeus Pater” to the Romans) WHO LED A CONQUERING PEOPLE OF THE STEPES as they SWEPT BEFORE THEM NEOLITHIC HUMANS WHO WORSHIPED CREATURED THEY HONORED WITH STATUES LIKE THIS:
CUCUTENI-TRYPILLIA FIGURINE, ROMANIA, 4050–3900 BC
What the Special About the West?
Was a conquering Male-Godded PEOPLE The Start of ITHE THE WEST HAS FOLLOWED A MURDERING COURSE? RLIER?
THE HAN CHINESE DID NOT, THE HAN CHINESE DID NOT, THE SPANISH AND OTHE E UROPEANS HAD STEEL IN THEIR HANDS AND CRUEL HEARTS; THE PEOPLE THEY MET IN What we call America far less erong the along the original Americans that is American S THEY MET, EVEN TO EACH OTHER (A Post for Another Day).
We Won’t Answer of the See-on-And-Off Series, But We’ll Touch on Them. FIC (The Reason for Studying Mahan and the “American Center “), And We’ll See How it Plays Out. I Hope, Through Our Reading of Alfred McCoy, We’ll See Context as well.
