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The Washington Consensus: Setting Standards

Culture is US/Secularization Centric Democracy Triumphs Rule of Law Prevails Growth is Good. The Washington Consensus: Setting Standards. The US Dynamic: Growth  Wealth  Democracy  Peace. The Anchors of the American Century.

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The Washington Consensus: Setting Standards

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  1. Culture is US/Secularization Centric Democracy Triumphs Rule of Law Prevails Growth is Good The Washington Consensus:Setting Standards The US Dynamic: Growth  Wealth  Democracy  Peace

  2. The Anchors of the American Century • Two fundamentally American ideas anchored globalization since WW II. • CAPITALISM US-STYLE • Low taxes, light regulation and small government power growth. • Deregulation/Privatization became the order of the day in the US, the West, and the world. • Build free markets here, there, and everywhere • LET FREEDOM RING • USA champions liberal democracy here, there, and everywhere • The US led the march of freedom worldwide • MISSION • Set standards that build and sustain a prosperous, peaceful international order.

  3. The Tools of the American Century • Soft Power • ability to attract and co-opt, rather than coerce with force or money, as a means of persuasion • Culture, ideals, images, outlooks, rhetoric • People worldwide found the American form of self-government attractive and reset their societies along the same lines. • Now, if you resisted our standards…. • Hard Power • Use of military, financial, and/or economic coercion to influence the behavior interests of other political agents • Nation as Peacekeeper

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