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A paper which analyses Todorov's "New World Disorder" with specific reference to the American invasion of Iraq and PNAC's strategic policies for American world domination. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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both European and American political theories has been regarded so highly. As Breschi (2004) points out, Todorov was born in Bulgaria and has lived in France since his early twenties.
Breschi regards him as "unifying Eastern and Western Europe divided for a long time for the Berlin Wall" through his own cultural experience (Breschi, 2004, cited 2005).
At the same time, however, the length of time which he has spent studying and teaching in the USA means that he is unlikely to succumb
to the kind of anti-American stance which Breschi apparently sees as typical of Europeans. Todorov might, therefore, be expected to adopt an objective, or at least a pluralist, attitude to
the Iraq invasion, and according to reviewers, this does indeed appear to be the case. Breschi also comments that those who regard the
current American political stance as "neoconservative" are, in his view, inaccurate and hypocritical: he asserts that Todorovs work undermines such a view. He maintains that there is "no conservatism at
all in that politics . . in fact its roots may be found in an international politics" (Breschi, 2004, cited 2005); he cites Todorov as commenting on members of
the Bush regime as "of the original Trotskyist and Marxist formation", a somewhat surprising observation perhaps in view of the long American history of anti-communism.
However, Todorov states that rather than neoconservatives, these groups should be labelled neofundamentalists. The fundamentalist element arises because they wish to impose what they consider to be an "absolute
good" on the populace, and "neo" because this good is no longer the religious "good" associated with the Christian god but is rather linked to liberal democratic values. Such values,
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