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Japan seeks a more reciprocal arrangement in which Washington engages in prior consultations on

Despite the evidence that appeals to the logic of 'irrevocable decline', American power is likely to endure.

We have to adjust to a world that Bush could never accept--one in which new power centers arise, one in which America does not always set the rules and sometimes has to heed rules set by others.

Most of all Iraqis want an end to occupation. While the pullout of US troops will not bring an immediate end to all the violence, the process of ending the violence cannot begin in earnest untilthe US, British, and "coalition" troops, as well as private security forces, are withdrawn.

The second illusion of the Bush era is that the rest of the world will naturally seek to emulate the American model--not only our traditions of democracy and free expression,

The NPT regime was not established with the sole aim of obligating the member nations to simply ensure nuclear nonproliferation, that is the prevention of proliferation of nuclear weapons to non-nuclear nations.

In that spirit, it is important to examine the reasons why the nonproliferation regime might actually be more robust than it appears.

he more America's overweening military power threatens smaller countries with forcible regime change, the more they will seek asymmetric solutions. Their options are terrorism, on the one hand, and rogue strategic weapons, on the other.

The Asia Pacific region continues to be the center of the most steadfast nonviolent resistance to the U.S. bases.

America's patently well-intentioned push for democracy actually stifled that momentum, as indigenous advocates for democracy became tarred by their association with America and with a conception of democracy that was associated, from the perspective of America's audience, with the USA

It doesn't matter which party or which politician is in power: American military forces will be on the move, invading a Third World nation here and threatening an emerging power there.

It is no wonder, then, that we are having so much difficulty convincing others to follow our lead toward a tolerant social order, a liberal political order, and a freer economic order.

the countries with the largest number of U.S. troops--Germany, Japan, Korea, and Italy--have tended to provide the highest percentage of base cost sharing.

There are many different reasons why a prospective nuclear weapons state, even a country that already possesses the technical capacity to become one, might ultimately choose not to go down that path.

Even if a bomb, or a few bombs, were to go off, it does not necessarily follow that war would result.

Bases are “present” in the countries

Catherine Lutz, (Prof., International Studies, Brown U.), THE BASES OF EMPIRE: THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE AGAINST U.S. MILITARY POSTS, 2009, 1.

ome degree of risk is an inevitable fact of life, that the country can, however grimly, absorb just about any damage terrorism can inflict

NATO wants genuine consultation -- they want to be able to change US policies

Kori Schake, (Research Fellow, Hoover Institution), MANAGING AMERICAN HEGEMONY, 2009, 29.