| 来源类型 | Op-Ed
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| Sovereignty is no solution |
| Dalibor Rohac
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| 发表日期 | 2019-10-09
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| 出处 | The American Interest
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Since his arrival in office, President Trump has been making essentially the same speech to the United Nations General Assembly every year. “If you want democracy, hold on to your sovereignty,” he urged the world’s leaders this September. “The future does not belong to globalists. The future belongs to patriots. The future belongs to sovereign and independent nations who protect their citizens, respect their neighbors and honor the differences that make each country special and unique,” he added.
Last year, he pledged: “We will never surrender America’s sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable, global bureaucracy.” His 2017 address mentioned sovereignty 22 times, promising to “[renew] this founding principle.”
Through his frequent invocations of sovereignty, Trump has elevated a staple of U.S. and British conservative thought to a new prominence. For decades, figures such as the former advisor to Margaret Thatcher (today, a vocal defender of Hungary’s strongman Viktor Orbán) John O’Sullivan, claimed that “global governance” “seeks to take ultimate political power (sovereignty) from democratic parliaments and congresses accountable to national electorates in sovereign states and vest it in courts, bureaucratic agencies, NGOs and transnational bodies that are accountable only to themselves or to other transnational bodies.”
“Leading Brexiteers saw the UK’s EU membership as incompatible with parliamentary sovereignty. The goal of Brexit, according to Dan Hannan, a former Tory MEP, is thus simply “a recovery of parliamentary supremacy.”
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| 主题 | Foreign and Defense Policy
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| 标签 | Economic Policy
; populism
; sovereignty
; Trump
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/op-eds/sovereignty-is-no-solution/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/210534
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