US/European Differences

Submitted by Robert Stephenson (United Kingdom), Jan 23, 2003 at 11:51

As someone with transatlantic origins - I have an English Mother and an American Father (although I am British born) and with new insights as a mature graduate in Political Geography and Geopolitics, I have been exploring the validity of a research project analysing the developing Militarization of Space discourse with a view to using this global commons --. Space as a window to examine philosophical and "applied" differences between these 2 power centres. Particularly, I am interested in Kagan's identification of Kantian and Hobbesian differences which, perhaps, are surfacing in debates (and resistances) to BMD.

I feel priviledged to be writing from London where, at present, these tensions are so clearly evident in Blair's current difficulties in preserving the status quo of the UK/US "special" relationship and the uncertainties of the continuing UK European Adventure.

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