Tapas Roy

“although it is one of the tragic ironies of history that the end of the colonial era, rather than promoting order, in many instances created disorder on a large scale.”
― Richard N. Haass, A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

“According to a recent survey, the paradoxical effect of the global spread of democracy in the last fifty years is that citizens, in a number of supposedly consolidated democracies in North America and western Europe, have grown more critical of their political leaders.3 But that’s not all. They have also become more cynical about the value of democracy as a political system, less hopeful that anything they do might influence public policy, and more willing to express support for authoritarian alternatives. The study also shows that “younger generations are less committed to the importance of democracy” and that they are “less likely to be politically engaged.”4”
― Ivan Krastev, After Europe

“for money cannot find good soldiers, but good soldiers will be sure to find money.…”
― James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom

“The two sides need to absorb the history of the decade before World War I, when the gradual emergence of an atmosphere of suspicion and latent confrontation escalated into catastrophe. The leaders of Europe trapped themselves by their military planning and inability to separate the tactical from the strategic.”
― Henry Kissinger, World Order