The rhetoric of a New World Order based on law and a greater role for the United Nations is in fact fundamentally flawed. The concept of a New World Order served as a useful device to marshal support for the American led war against Iraq and it continues to serve as a useful framework for the preservation of the new balance of power favourable to the United States.
The real foundation of Washington’s vision of a New World Order can be found in two crucial and classified documents prepared by the Bush administration (Bush Senior) officials of the Pentagon, the State Department and the White House. The first is a 46 page document prepared under the supervision of Paul D. Wolfowitz, the Pentagon’s former under-secretary for policy. The second document was prepared by a committee of experts headed by Admiral David Jeremia, former assistant to the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell.
Both documents spell out in detail various scenarios of conflicts and possible challenges to the United States’ undisputed supremacy, and articulate a set of American political and military objectives and policy guidelines. As such, they provide an authoritative and clear exposition of the official American thinking about the New World Order and the U.S. role in it. The documents may be summarized in the following paragraphs.



















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