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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic…
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Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes…
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I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know,…
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Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist,…
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Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being…
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Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost…
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Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination,…
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The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
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Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it,…
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Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC…
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Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a…
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Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder…
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Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on…
— Madeleine Albright
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For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September…
— Zach Wamp
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Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of…
— Yitzhak Rabin
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
— Bashar al-Assad
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The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding…
— Evan Bayh
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Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American…
— Chuck Hagel
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... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the…
— Edward Said
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The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of…
— Timothy Noah
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Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.
— Joe Biden
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A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target…
— Robert Jenkins
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I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.
— Peter Brimelow
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The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.
— Paul Wolfowitz
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