War and Conflict in the Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era
From: Lydon McGrath Productions
Length: 00:58:30
Is there a way to define or rationalize conflict and war in the global era? Is there a way to think about the world in a new century that might prevent it?
The Cold War imposed a kind of logic on the world -- a superpower symmetry that seemed to promote restraint and peace. Relative to now anyway. 911 unleashed new forces, new misunderstandings and instabilities that the world is still grappling with. And the war on terror designed to confront them is now in the shadow of an unfolding war in Iraq and a possible blueprint for war in North Korea.
But does anybody really know what the world is fighting about? Is it about regime change in Iraq or installing democracy in the Middle East?. Is it about weapons or resources -- oil, water, diamonds or timber? About civilizations clashing or new empires ascending? Or freedom or religion, or identity, or terror, or land or peace or security or nation building?
Guests: Kanan Makiya, Chris Hedges, Samuel Huntington, Seamus Heaney, Michael Klare, Akbar Ahmed, Chalmers Johnson
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Is there a way to define or rationalize conflict and war in the global era? Is there a way to think about the world in a new century that might prevent it? The Cold War imposed a kind of logic on the world -- a superpower symmetry that seemed to promote restraint and peace. Relative to now anyway. 911 unleashed new forces, new misunderstandings and instabilities that the world is still grappling with. And the war on terror designed to confront them is now in the shadow of an unfolding war in Iraq and a possible blueprint for war in North Korea. But does anybody really know what the world is fighting about? Is it about regime change in Iraq or installing democracy in the Middle East?. Is it about weapons or resources -- oil, water, diamonds or timber? About civilizations clashing or new empires ascending? Or freedom or religion, or identity, or terror, or land or peace or security or nation building? Guests: Kanan Makiya, Chris Hedges, Samuel Huntington, Seamus Heaney, Michael Klare, Akbar Ahmed, Chalmers Johnson
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Jonathan Goldstein
Posted on February 09, 2004 at 05:40 AM | Permalink
Review of War and Conflict in the Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era
Rather than neatly packaging everything up into a simple and clear picture, the show leaves us feeling like we do not know very much at all. One even feels that the people talking are wrestling with the subject; they are wrestling with their own role in it. It is not a manner of speech that we have come to identify as “expert-talk,” but it is a more compelling way to discuss the war, and it does not shy away from the obvious emotional level of the subject. I think “War and Conflict” would be an excellent, even necessary, part of any station’s war coverage.