Wilson, Bush, and the Evolution of Liberal Foreign Policy

http://web.mit.edu/cis/editorspick_smith08_audit.html

April 2008

Cambridge, Mass.

By Tony Smith

Smith's January 2008 presentation at "The Liberal Foreign Policy Tradition" conference.

THE FIRST SUBJECT to discuss in considering the future of the liberal internationalist agenda is the importance of the democratization project to the definition of Wilsonianism. The second is the meaning of multilateralism. In the first case, Thomas Knock and Anne-Marie Slaughter argue in a forthcoming volume that democratization was never an important part of Wilsonianism; that, instead, multilateralism is the key to liberal internationalism. On the basis of this argument, they come to the conclusion that the Bush Doctrine is not in the Wilsonian tradition. In my contribution to this volume,¹ I object to this denigration of the place of democracy in liberal internationalism as being fundamentally illogical. Accordingly, I find the Bush Doctrine easily identifiable as Wilsonian.

Mitsubishi Corp. to Join Areva Mongolia Project, Nikkei Says

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By Steven McPherson - December 20, 2009 16:15 EST

Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Mitsubishi Corp., a Japanese trading company, will invest in a project of Areva SA to explore for uranium in Mongolia, the Nikkei newspaper reported on its English service.

Mitsubishi will pay 34 percent of exploration costs to date, 34 percent of future costs, and acquire 34 percent of an Areva unit in Mongolia, according to the report. It didn’t say how much Mitsubishi would invest, or who provided the information.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Steven McPherson at smcpherson@bloomberg.net

Uranium projects in Mongolia

http://www.wise-uranium.org/upmn.html

France and Mongolia sign agreement on nuclear cooperation, uranium mining

On Oct. 14, 2010, France and Mongolia signed a cooperation agreement in the field of nuclear energy. It covers, among others, uranium exploration and exploitation by Areva in Mongolia. (Areva Nov. 2, 2010)