| ID | 097108 |
| Title Proper | Managing the global commons |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Denmark, Abraham M |
| Publication | 2010. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The geopolitical theorist Sir Halford Mackinder once observed that democracies find it difficult to think strategically in peacetime. It should not be surprising then that one of the United States' core peacetime strategic objectives for more than half a century-the development of a robust international system based on free trade, international law, and international institutions-was born in wartime. The 1944 Bretton Woods agreement laid the foundation for this system to reconcile and reconstruct the Axis powers and avoid another world war. This strategy was further developed in 1950 with "NSC 68," which claimed that the development of a healthy international community should be pursued by the United States even without the existence of a Soviet threat. |
| `In' analytical Note | Washington Quarterly Vol. 33, No. 3; Jul 2010: p.165 - 182 |
| Journal Source | Washington Quarterly Vol. 33, No. 3; Jul 2010: p.165 - 182 |
| Key Words | United States ; International Law ; International Institutions ; Bretton Woods Agreement ; 1944 ; Russia ; World War II ; Cold War |