アメリカにとっての「脅威」とは? |
ルスコフといえば、オバマと非常に近いアンソニー・レイクとビジネスパートナーだったこともありますね。
こういうのは時間のない議員たちへのブリーフィング用によく使われるんですよね。参考まで。
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A World Transformed: The Great Hollowing Out and the Rise of New Threats
David Rothkopf
HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE HEARING, MARCH 11, 2009
(中略)
The greatest threats associated with the crisis include:
●The economic and political constraints placed on the United States
●The economic and political constraints placed on the EU, China and other potentially stabilizing actors
●The crisis of confidence in institutions worldwide, and the threats to the international system
●The exacerbation of critical threats associated with proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
●The consequences of protracted crisis for the world’s weakest states
●The threats to weak and weakened states directly impacting U.S. national interests
To address these threats, Rothkopf offered a set of recommendations that could minimize the national security risks posed by the crisis.
Key recommendations for U.S. policy:
●Be strategic about marshalling and maintaining U.S. Resources (exercise fiscal restraint and rethink defense budgeting)
●Maximize the means of leveraging U.S. power (maintaining critical institutions and alliances)
●Lead a coordinated, proactive global effort to reduce, eliminate or contain threats (beginning with economic threats)
●Maintain a credible deterrent against bad actors
●Recognize the likelihood of crises emerging beyond the Iraq and Afghanistan-Pakistan conflicts that currently preoccupy the U.S.
●Fight the temptation to turn inward at home and abroad
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個人的には太字で示したように中国を「安定化のためには欠かせない国」と書いていることでしょうか。
おススメの対処法のほうですが、国防費に触れるのは当然としても、やはり「内向きになるな!」ということを最後に持ってきているあたりが気になります。