Education
Eton College; Christ Church, Oxford University (Bachelor 1974.
( In 1990, when the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War end...)
In 1990, when the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended, economic and political analysts declared the world a safer place. But not political journalist Robert Harvey. The roar of international optimism only intensified the pangs of his geopolitical anxiety. In 1995, in The Return of the Strong, he warned Western democracies that the tides of economic globalization were sweeping the world toward a new crisis. Unfortunately, the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, justified Harvey's alarm. It also prompted him to revise and update his analysis of the dangers facing the free world. Global Disorder not only examines the precarious state of world affairs in the aftermath of 9/11 but also offers far-reaching proposals for the reform of global security. In light of the emergence of the United States as the world's first megapower, Harvey explores the sources of international tension that have increasingly commanded the attention of the West and lays out the perils inherent in the globalization of capitalism without political or economic control. He presents constructive measures that he believes the West—especially the United States—must undertake to restore stability around the world and truly ensure international security.
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(This text offers a critique of the post-Cold War world, a...)
This text offers a critique of the post-Cold War world, and the action needed to avert disaster. It asserts that the unification of Germany in October 1990 was as historic an occasion as the end of World War II, 45 years earlier. The yoke of oppression had been lifted from Eastern Europe, the Cold War was over, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania were free. Soviet troops marched home, the "peace dividend" was cashed in, two thirds of American forces in Europe decamped across the Atlantic. Democracy even took tentative root in Russia, as its western and southern dependencies secured their nationhood. In 1995, the celebrations seem hollowly premature. A succession of security and humanitarian crises have occurred worldwide, which the international community has proved ill-prepared and ill-equipped to deal with: Nagorno-Karabakh, Bosnia, Croatia, Central Asia, the Korean nuclear crisis, Algeria, Rwanda, and Chechnya. Incidents involving ethnic nationalism have increased and America is blindly and dangerously disengaging itself from Europe and the world. Germany, Italy and Japan have become more nationalistic and China is rearming. Economically, global capitalism may be at a stage not far different from national capitalism at the end of the 19th century: its authoritarian nature, disregard for national and personal sensitivities, enormous power and incompetence could give rise to a perilous reaction. The parallel is with the complacency of the Edwardian era, which foreshadowed four decades of war, revolution and economic turbulence. Unless action is taken, the same global horrors could reoccur, this time through a nuclear haze.
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Eton College; Christ Church, Oxford University (Bachelor 1974.
Robert Harvey has been foreign affairs leader writer for the Daily Telegraph (1987-1991) and assistant editor of The Economist (1981-1983). Harvey first stood for Parliament, unsuccessfully, at Caernarvon in October 1974, where he was beaten by the future leader of Plaid Cymru, Dafydd Wigley. Five years later he contested Merioneth, once again being beaten by a Plaid Cymru incumbent, Dafydd Elis-Thomas.
In the Conservative landslide of 1983 general election, he was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Clwyd South-West.
He served for one term before his defeat at the 1987 election by the Labour candidate Martyn Jones.
( In 1990, when the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War end...)
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He became a member of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. He was a member of the Wilton Park council (1984-1988) and a member of the advisory board of the Woodrow Wilson Chair of International (1985-1992). He is an active member of the Caux Round Table.