ARMING THE OUTPOSTS OF THE ANGLOSPHERE ISN'T PROLIFERATION:

Widespread fallout from India-US pact (Brad Glosserman and Bates Gill, 10/28/08, Asia Times)

More profoundly, many European officials and defense specialists see the US-India deal as part of a broader effort to reshape the Asian balance of power. Many of them believe the agreement is an attempt to forge a new relationship with a regional power that ultimately aims at balancing China. The perception that Washington is willing to use the NPT as a pawn in a geostrategic game undermines US leadership and diminishes the status of the NPT. Rather than serving as the cornerstone of the global nonproliferation order, the NPT now looks like just another item in a great power's diplomatic toolkit.

The only justification for transnational institutions -- like the World Trade Organization -- is that they are mere tools in our kit.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 27, 2008 7:47 AM