8. “Flying on One Engine,” Economist, September 20, 2003.
9. In the words of Nouriel Roubini, “Either you want the dollar to depreciate against Asian currencies or you want to maintain low interest rates. You can’t have it both ways. It just doesn’t add up”: quoted in “Gambling with the Dollar,” Washington Post, September 24, 2003. See also Graham Turner, “The Fed Has Not Avoided Danger,” Financial Times, June 30, 2003; John Plender, “On a Wing and a Prayer,” Financial Times, July 3, 2003.
10. James, End of Globalization.
11. Stephen Cecchetti, “America’s Job Gap Difficult to Close,” Financial Times, October 1, 2003.
12. Robert Longley, “U.S. Prison Population Tops 2 Million,” http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/censusstatistic/a/aapris-onpop.htm. One in twenty American men has now spent some time behind bars; for black men the ratio is one in six. If penal policy continues unchanged, more than one in ten of boys born in 2001 will go to jail at some point in their lives: “In the Can,” Economist, August 23, 2003.
13. Andrew and Kanya-Forstner, France Overseas, p. 13.
14. In the very apt words of Tom Friedman, “America is in an imperial role here, now. Our security and standing in the world ride on our getting Iraq right. If the Bush team has something more important to do, I’d like to know about it. Iraq can still go wrong for a hundred Iraqi reasons, but let’s make sure it’s not because America got bored, tired or distracted:” “Bored with Baghdad Already,” New York Times, May 18, 2003.
15. Priest, Mission, p. 117.
16. Forman et al, United States in a Global Age, p. 16f.
17. Ignatieff, Empire Lite, p. 115. In Ignatieff’s words (p. 90): “Effective imperial power also requires controlling the subject people’s sense of time, convincing them that they will be ruled forever. The illusion of permanence was one secret of the British Empire’s long survival. Empires cannot be maintained and national interests cannot be secured over the long term by a people always looking for the exit.” This is precisely right. See also ibid., p. 113f.
18. See, e.g., Pierre Hassner, The United States: The Empire of Force or the Force of Empire, Institute for Security Studies of the European Union Chaillot Paper, 54, September 2002.
19. Quoted in Bacevich, American Empire, p. 243.
20. Matthews, “Hard Part,” p. 51.
21. Priest, Mission, p. 57.
22. BMI is defined as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters, squared. Anyone with a BMI index of 30 or over is defined as obsese; anyone with a BMI over 25 is overweight.
23. Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2002, table 190.
24. Figures are available from the World Health Organization for twenty countries.
25. Though the black woman’s burden tends to be even larger in this respect. A third of African-American females are classified as obese.
26. Ranke, “Great Powers.”
27. Ikenberry, After Victory.
28. Ferguson, Cash Nexus, p. 37.
29. Ibid., p. 412 (emphasis added).
30. Ibid., p. 388.
31. Ibid., p. 417.
32. Ibid., p. 418.
33. Fischer, “Globalization and Its Challenges.”
34. “Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Address to a Joint Session of Congress,” New York Times, July 17, 2003.
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