LIBERAL IMPERIALISM
With the handover of power in Iraq just a week away, Laurie Taylor examines the historical ideas and philosophy behind the term Liberal Imperialism, the notion that powerful states can and should intervene in other countries' affairs.
As an idea, in recent years, Liberal Imperialism has received something of a revival but can it ever be unburdened from its associations with the past?
Robert Cooper is at the centre of the debate on contemporary liberal imperialism.Ìý Formerly Special Adviser on Foreign Affairs to Tony Blair and currently Director General of External and Politico-Military Affairs for the Council of the European Union, under Javier Solana, he maintains a parallel career as a writer and thinker on matters that shape the world.
To discuss further this idea of a new liberal imperialism, Laurie Taylor is joined by John Gray, Professor of European Thought, at the London School of Economics who has been critical of the intervention in Iraq and writer Ziauddin Sardar, who has written extensively on various aspects of Islam, politics and culture studies.
Additional information:
Robert Cooper
Director General for External and Politico-military affairs,
The Post-Modern State and the World Order
Demos ISBN 1841800104
Professor of European Thought, London School of Economics
Two Faces of Liberalism
Polity Press ISBN 0745622593
Two Liberalisms of Fear
Hedgehog Review 2, no.1 (2000)
Mills Liberalism and Liberalism's Posterity
Journal of Ethics Winter (1999)
Writer, broadcaster and cultural critic
Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim
Granta Books ISBN 1862076502
Readings from: A Few Words on Non- Intervention (1859)
from the essay On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
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