Sovereignty will fall victim to the flow of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, dollars, drugs, viruses, and e-mails… Sovereign states will increasingly measure their vulnerability not to one another but to forces of globalization beyond their control.
Arab governments, at the end of the day, care most about remaining in power.
Revolutions rarely end up as positively as they begin.
People mistake majoritarianism for democracy.
In Washington telling the truth is a gaff.
There must be some limits on the form of democracy. It can’t be winner take all.
How central shall democracy be in everything else we want to do in the world?
Governments agree to accept the rulings of the World Trade Organization because, on balance, they benefit from a rules-based international trading order, even in a particular ruling impinges on their right to protect national industries.
One of the rules of the Middle East is: The enemy of your enemy can still be your enemy.
