首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Michael Mann also warns of a dangerous, and ultimately unsustainable, imperial turn in U. S. foreign policy. This "new imperiali
Michael Mann also warns of a dangerous, and ultimately unsustainable, imperial turn in U. S. foreign policy. This "new imperiali
admin
2010-07-06
38
问题
Michael Mann also warns of a dangerous, and ultimately unsustainable, imperial turn in U. S. foreign policy. This "new imperialism," he argues in Incoherent Empire, is driven by a radical vision in which unilateral military power enforces U.S. rule and overcome global disorder.
Mann believes that this "imperial project" depends on a wildly inflated measure of American power; the United States may have awesome military muscle, but its political and economic capabilities are less overwhelming. This imbalance causes Washington to overemphasize the use of force, turning the quest for empire into "overconfident and hyperactive militarism." Such militarism generates what Mann calls "incoherent empire," which undermines U.S. leadership and creates more, not fewer, terrorists and rogue states.
Mann acknowledges that the United States is a central hub of the world economy and that the role of the dollar as the primary reserve currency confers significant advantages in economic matters. But the actual ability of Washington to use trade and aid as political leverage, he believes, is severely limited, as was evident in its failure to secure the support of countries such as Angola, Chile, Guinea, Mexico, and Pakistan in the Security Council before the war in Iraq. Moreover,
Washington’s client states are increasingly unreliable, and the populations of erstwhile allies are in- flamed with anti-Americanism. American culture and ideals, meanwhile, hold less appeal than they did in previous eras. Although the world still embraces the United States’ open society and basic freedoms, it increasingly complains about "cultural imperialism" and U.S. aggression. Nationalism and religious fundamentalism have forged deep cultures of resistance to an American imperial project.
Mann and Barber both make the important point that an empire built on military domination a- lone will not succeed. In their characterization, the United States offers security—acting as a global leviathan to control the problems of a Hobbesian world—in exchange for other countries’ acquiescence. Washington, in this imperial vision, refuses to play by the same roles as other governments and maintains that this is the price the world must pay for security. But this U. S. -imposed order cannot last. Barber points out that the United States has so much "business" with the rest of the world that it cannot rule the system without complex arrangements of cooperation. Mann, for his part, argues that military "shock and awe" merely increases resistance; he cites the sociologist Talcott Parsons, who long ago noted that raw power, unlike consensus authority, is "deflationary": the more it is used, the more rapidly it diminishes.
The word "client" in "Washington’s client states" in paragraph 3 was closest in meaning to which of the following word?
选项
A、server.
B、defender.
C、lawyer.
D、customer.
答案
A
解析
本题是一个词义推断题,要求考生联系上下文语境来推断词义。回到对应原文:“Washington’s client states are increasingly unreliable”。注意表语动词和主语应该对应。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/GnDd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语四级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语四级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
YouwillhearaspeechbyIvoJupa,whomadeuseofshortmessageservicetoraisemoneyforcharity.Asyoulisten,answerthe
Youhavereadanarticleinamagazinewhichstates,"TheInternethasnowbecomeanimportantlearningtoolforchildren,expo
ThefollowingisaninterviewwithEmmaRichards,oneofBritain’smostsuccessfulsailorsandtheyoungestpersontocompletet
Themanbehindthisnotion,JackMaple,isadandywhoaffectsdarkglasses,homburgs(翘边帽)andtwo-toeshoes;yethehasbecomeso
A=TheImperialPalaceB=TheTempleofHeavenC=PotalaPalaceD=JokhangTempleWhichpalaceortemple...isthespiritualc
A=TheImperialPalaceB=TheTempleofHeavenC=PotalaPalaceD=JokhangTempleWhichpalaceortemple...isthespiritualc
Supermarketshoppershaveneverbeenmorespoiltforchoice.Butjustwhenwethoughttraditionalsystemsofselectivefarmingh
Somedoctorsaretakinganunusualnewapproachtocommunicatebetterwithpatients—theyareletting【C1】________readthenotest
Parentsnowhaveapopularbeliefthatschoolsarenolongerinterestedinspelling.NoschoolIhavetaughtinhaseverignored
What’sthemaintopicofthemonologue?
随机试题
由“Fori=1To16Step3”决定的循环结构被执行()。
为什么带平衡电抗器三相双反星形可控整流电路能输出较大的电流?
以下应办理税务登记的有()。
商业资本的职能是()。
学前儿童心理健康的特征有哪些?
在中国最早讴歌十月革命,比较系统地介绍马克思主义的是()
设有方程组(Ⅰ)求方程组(i)与(ii)的基础解系与通解;(Ⅱ)求方程组(i)与(ii)的公共解.
用来辅助软件开发、运行、维护、管理、支持等过程中的活动的软件称为软件开发工具,通常也称为(45)工具。使用软件开发工具有助于提高软件的开发、维护和管理的效率。集成型软件开发环境通常由工具集和环境集成机制组成。这种环境应具有(46)。环境集成机制有数
使用“报表向导”创建报表,报表包含的字段个数创建报表时可以选择,还可以定义_________。
"That’saverygood______you’vejustputforward,"saidProf.Smith.
最新回复
(
0
)