The US Aspirations to an Imperial World Governance By Nguyen Thi Mai
The US aspirations to an imperial world governance, which it would lead, is not new and, since World War I, the Administrations in Washington D.C. have constantly oscillated between the temptation of a superb isolationism and a proactive policy of intervention in world affairs and other States' domestic affairs. Reagan's and George Bush I's Administrations were clear examples of the latter behaviour. However, the conditions were different from the present situation:
- in the Reagan's case, the Soviet Union had still not collapsed and the US power was mitigated by the Soviet influence as well as by the, already declining, relative strength of the Third World; and even at the very beginning of the 1990s, the new unequal distribution of world power had not yet been integrated by US policy makers;
- in both cases, the UN was an influential actor (or "reactor") in the various crisis in question;
