http://www.newamerica.net/blog/topics/concert-democracies The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.newamerica.net/blog/american-strategy/2008/radical-princeton-project-3810 <p><img src="http://www.usbr.gov/mp/ccao/field_offices/new_melones/images/wildlife_bald_eagle_small.jpg" align="left" height="123" hspace="6" vspace="3" width="180" />John Ikenberry and Anne-Marie Slaughter recently proposed that the U.S. create an organization made up of the world's liberal democracies, &quot;Concert of Democracies,&quot; that would serve as a souce of legitimacy for the use of force outside of the United Nations. In a recent <a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/07/download_the_original_attachme_1/" target="_blank">TPM Cafe piece</a>, New America's <a href="/people/michael_lind">Michael Lind</a> argues this would serve only to allow a hawkish U.S. President to get weak states to rubber-stamp an unpopular was such as in Iran. </p> http://www.newamerica.net/blog/american-strategy/2008/radical-princeton-project-3810#comments American Strategy concert of democracies NATO Neocons United Nations Fri, 09 May 2008 14:44:00 -0400 Kailash Srinivasan 3810 at http://www.newamerica.net/blog