Engage and prosper

摘要

The young may not remember it, but there was a moment, back in the faraway 1990s, when communism was dissolving, George Bush was in the White House, God was in his heaven and all was right with the world. Or, to be more accurate, it seemed to some that all could be put right with the world. Times have moved on. After Somalia, Bosnia and Rwanda, few people any longer imagine that it would be easy to impose any sort of world order, even if the mighty United States or the unmighty United Nations should wish to. Yet idealism is not quite dead. As Augusto Pinochet knows, the world is not altogether safe for dictators, warlords and ethnic-cleansers, and the concept of humanitarian intervention is now indelibly on the international agenda.