1. Great Power Rivalry European Integration 1183 March 31

2. Europe is turning away from power, or to put it a little differently, it is moving beyond power into a self- contained world of laws and rules and transnational negotiation and cooperation. --Robert Kagan (2002)

3. Cheney 1992 Our strategy must now refocus on precluding the emergence of any potential future global competitor.

4. Lawrence Wilkerson SPIEGEL: Do you ever think that Powell was set up? Wilkerson: Well I am increasingly convinced that, for a part of the Bush administration, the argument “weapons of mass destruction” was just a camouflage, just subterfuge for their real goals and reasons of the war. SPIEGEL: What are they?

5. Lawrence Wilkerson (contd.) Wilkerson: I am convinced that the vast oil resources of Iraq weigh heavier for me now when I do the strategic analysis as reasons for the war than I thought back then. SPIEGEL: Who do you mean specifically? George W. Bush? Wilkerson: I am not sure. But I would be very interested to look at the documents chronicling Dick Cheney’s pre-war conversations with leading figures of the energy business and with oil magnates. Maybe one day historians will be able to get their hands on those documents and come to a judgment about that -- if and when the classified documents become open to the public.

6. USA [The Nation-State] Concert of DemocraciesInternational Agencies Security [I] Classical Realism [2] Liberal Realism [3] Global Justice Law [4] Pax Americana [5] Pax Occidenta [6] Liberal Institutionalism Democracy [7] Democratic Globalism [8] Western Imperialism [9] Cosmopolitan Democracy