The new world order? Part 1 - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

The new world order? Part 1 - Opinion - Al Jazeera English:

There is no more reliable guardian of entrenched conventional wisdom than The Economist. And so its cover recently proclaimed "the new world order", and removed any ambiguity from its intentions, by its portrayal of Russian President Vladimir Putin as a shirtless tank commander with menacing features. No such iconography accompanied the last notable invocation of the phrase by George H W Bush in mobilising support for a forcible response to the Iraqi invasion and annexation of Kuwait in 1990, the dirty work of Saddam Hussein.

There the elder Bush was seeking to suggest, with the Cold War winding down, that finally the UN Security Council (UNSC) could act, as originally intended, and meet Iraqi aggression with a collective response. With some reluctance the Security Council mandated the use of force to repel Iraq, and restore Kuwaiti sovereignty.

Former US President George H W Bush invoked the idea of a 'new world order' before the First Gulf War, writes Falk [AFP]