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The vision that he and his co-author advocate is much more aggressive: America should aim for benevolent global hegemony.
But given the choice between a United States aloof from the world and one that engages in benevolent hegemony, many countries will prefer the latter, hoping ideological would soon cool.
He thought that it was important to confront the fact of our insignificant place in the universe, because he did not want us to live under the illusory comfort of a belief that somehow the world had been created for our sake, and that we are under the benevolent care of an all-powerful creator.
All allusions by the Putin regime to the Stalinist era must reinforce Putin’s own image as a modern benevolent dictator, capable of restoring Russia’s global influence and bringing it prosperity.
Either way, the premise that the US should lead forcefully rests on the idea that without a benevolent hegemonic power to police the world, chaos will ensue and more malevolent forces will take over.
Prometheus was a benevolent monarch who scattered the fruits of progress among his people.
The idea that the Chinese regime would quickly reform the country into an open, moderate, and benevolent giant was either a fraud, a gigantic misperception, or wishful thinking.
Since the expropriation of Yukos Oil Company in 2004, Putin’s policy had been highly benevolent to large state-owned firms.
Once again, all the formulas for Western-type democracy depend on the will of an enlightened and benevolent czar.
The Great Ape DebateIn his History of European Morals, published in 1869, the Irish historian and philosopher W.E.H. Lecky wrote:At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world...
The broader message from the Greek and French elections is that the attempt to impose a benevolent creditors’ dictatorship is now being met by a debtors’ revolt.
In fact, Europe’s much-vaunted social model is more a dream than a reality, the dream of a cozy world in which a benevolent state looks after us.
Nor are they set to become a benevolent, altruistic power, ready to use their new strength and reputation to improve the stability of the international system.
Unfortunately, many of the most benevolent provisions have since been discarded.
Buchanan’s analysis stood in marked contrast not only to Adam Smith’s dictum that the pursuit of self-interest leads, as if “by an invisible hand,” to desirable social outcomes, but also to the prevailing approach to policy analysis, which views government as a benevolent planner, implementing textbook “solutions” to market failures.
These apparent acts of mercy were presented as the wise acts of a benevolent modern czar ruling in the name of traditional values and repulsed by Western decadence – never mind that it was Western governments that had pressed most persistently for their release.
For example, Indonesia’s Suharto, a benevolent dictator who favored small elites and fought poverty, but allowed corruption to flourish, eventually faced a population that was fed up with the lack of political reform.
Dialogue, as benevolent as it may be, can’t resolve questions related to people’s freedom of movement, or to the sharing of territory or natural resources.
On the other hand, Putin's benevolent gestures towards mastera cultury (maestros of culture) -- Kremlin benevolence that was once so life-threatening -- are complacently accepted by today's mastera.
The same is true in The Netherlands, which has been governed for decades by the same middle-of-the-road parties, led by benevolent but rather paternalistic figures, whose views about “multiculturalism,” “tolerance,” and “Europe,” were, until recently, rarely challenged.
Minorities do well in empires, especially benevolent empires.
The same result could be achieved, with less cost to Germany, if Germany chose to behave as a benevolent hegemon.
The US served as a benevolent hegemon, administering the occasional rap on the knuckles to those acting in bad faith.
But the country cannot be a benevolent hegemon if it insists on maintaining a protectionist stance that deprives the global system – and other developing countries – of key public goods.
A collision seemed inevitable, when Captain Richomme appeared from behind the troop with his benevolent white head, overwhelmed by emotion.
They had regained their benevolent placidity, excusing their brave miners, whom they could already see again at the bottom of the mines, giving a good example of everlasting resignation.
"And you, Miss Frances, do you long as ardently for peace as your sister?""On many accounts I certainly do," returned the other, venturing to steal a timid glance at her interrogator; and, meeting the same benevolent expression of feeling as before, she continued, as her own face lighted into one of its animated and bright smiles of intelligence, "but not at the expense of the rights of my countrymen."
Frances had, indeed, thought there was something like a smile passing over the features of the traveler, when, on entering the room, he first confronted her brother; but it was confined to the eyes, seeming to want power to affect the muscles of the face, and was soon lost in the settled and benevolent expression which reigned in his countenance, with a sway but seldom interrupted.
Harper had dropped his book, and he sat an admiring witness of the scene; and Frances enjoyed a double satisfaction, as she received an approving smile from a face which concealed, under the traces of deep thought and engrossing care, the benevolent expression which characterizes all the best feelings of the human heart.
"Is there any hope, my cousin, that your friend can survive his wound?" said the lady, advancing towards her kinsman, with a smile of benevolent regard.
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