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Appeared in: Volume 10, Number 5
Published on: April 9, 2015

Understanding Ourselves

Pax Anglo-Saxonica John Bew

There is a distinctive Anglo-American way of conceptualizing global strategic reality, and it goes far deeper than the abstractions of liberalism.

On the way to work at the Library of Congress during the year just past, I was stopped on more than one occasion by activists from the Lyndon LaRouche movement. Among the many interesting theories they regaled me with one sunny Spring morning, one stuck out: Queen Elizabeth II, through dastardly means, exerted a secret and nefarious influence on American foreign policy, manipulating it to serve British imperial interests. This, they said, explained America’s recent wars in the Middle East. Informing these activists that I was British and therefore delighted to hear this news, I added that to have...

John Bew is reader at the War Studies Department at King’s College London and was the Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress in 2013–14. He is working on a long-term project on Transatlantic security with the Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft at the University of Texas.

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