Jiang claims institutions such as the United Nations, international development aid, and NGOs function to identify and prevent the emergence of leaders who might unify poor societies.
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United Nations
Jiang claims institutions such as the United Nations, international development aid, and NGOs function to identify and prevent the emergence of leaders who might unify poor societies.
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Jiang defines the first post-1991 U.S. theory of empire as limited objectives, coalition action, and U.N. authority under a rules-based order.
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"...the way it is. Why do we have organizations like the United Nations? Why do we have international development aid? The goal, guys, is..."
"If you just left them alone, they might starve but at the same time, a great leader might emerge to unite all of them,..."
"Does that make sense? Okay, but this is something we will discuss later on, okay? In another class, okay? All right, all right. Let's..."
"...is the most important, is that the ultimate leader was the United Nations."
"...United States had to go and make a case to the United Nations. The United Nations gave its consent to the military action, okay?..."
"...control the global economy. And they are the World Bank, the United Nations, WTO. You make people believe that this is all being controlled..."
"...You're not allowed to kill civilians. You needed permission from the United Nations to fight wars. And what this is saying is like, screw..."
"...against foreign entities that do business with Iran, end of all United Nations Security Council resolutions against Iran, end of all international atomic energy..."
"...means is American power hid behind multilateral organizations such as the United Nations. Such as the World Bank. Such as the World Trade Organization...."
"...on the battlefield so think of it as the as the united nations okay and it worked really really well the problem is that..."
"...that they did to make their applications look good is model united nations okay and that's fine maybe some of you are modeling united..."
"...in terms of activities i didn't want students to do modern united nations anymore because i didn't want kids sitting around just talking i..."
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