One Has To Be Willing To Face

Bipartisanship Helps To Avoid Extremes And Imbalances. It Causes Compromises And Accommodations. So Let's Cooperate.

We Cannot Leap Into World Government Through One Quick Step... The Precondition For Eventual And Genuine Globalization Is Progressive Regionalization Because By That We Move Toward Larger, More Stable, More Cooperative Units.

Moreover, They [the Central Asian Republics] Are Of Importance From The Standpoint Of Security And Historical Ambitions To At Least Three Of Their Most Immediate And More Powerful Neighbors, Namely Russia, Turkey And Iran, With China Also Signaling An Increasing Political Interest In The Region. But The Eurasian Balkans Are Infinitely More Important As A Potential Economic Prize: An Enormous Concentration Of Natural Gas And Oil Reserves Is Located In The Region, In Addition To Important Minerals, Including Gold.

War On Terrorism Defines The Central Preoccupation Of The United States In The World Today, And It Does Reflect In My View A Rather Narrow And Extremist Vision Of Foreign Policy Of The World's First Superpower, Of A Great Democracy, With Genuinely Idealistic Traditions.

In Fact, An Islamic Revival - Already Abetted From The Outside Not Only By Iran But Also By Saudi Arabia - Is Likely To Become The Mobilizing Impulse For The Increasingly Pervasive New Nationalisms, Determined To Oppose Any Reintegration Under Russian - And Hence Infidel - Control.