Word: internationalist
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...liberal internationalist view of the world, the U.S. is merely one among many--a stronger country, yes, but one that has to adapt itself to the will and the needs of "the international community." That is why the Clinton Administration was almost manic in pursuit of multilateral treaties--on chemical weapons, biological weapons, nuclear testing, proliferation. No matter that they could not be enforced. Our very signing would show us to be a good international citizen...
Politically, also, there are weird similarities. Pat evolved during our Crossfire years from a free trader to a protectionist and from a Reaganite internationalist to an America First isolationist. Styling himself the tribune of the workingman has led him down other paths that even he probably finds surprising. If it were anyone else, you'd say his views have become more complex and subtle, even tentative. But Pat manages to retain the certitude of simplicity even as his opinions evolve...
...brought to the job. Annan, 62, is a miracle of our internationalized world: born in Ghana, educated in the U.S. and Europe, a career U.N. diplomat who became Secretary-General in 1997. As Secretary-General he has begun to thrust the U.N. into new realms of global life. In internationalist circles, his vision of a moral world order is debated with ferocity...
...challenge and physical and psychological support for riders and can raise substantial sums of money for causes such as AIDS, diabetes and MS. Most offer distance options: there's the classic 100-mile century, the 50-mile half-century, the grueling 200-mile double century and, for the internationalist, the 62-mile (or 100-km) metric century...
Neither. McCain is an old kind of Republican--to be precise, he is several old kinds of Republican rolled into one. He grabs various strands of Republicanism and doesn't worry when they contradict. He's a self-styled populist and a free-trading internationalist, a noisy reformer who keeps his hands off business and has corporate lobbyists raising money for him. He picks an assortment of G.O.P. role models and invites them to rumble inside his head...