Dangerous Liaisons

Abstract

The US-dominated nation-state system promotes nationalism and militarism. It imposes new forms of colonialism characterized by global resistance against the imposition of a US-led global neoliberal economy, increasing levels of inequality and violence. It suggests a global civil war within the human race itself, a war against our own self. Going to war once again and the election of a neoliberal government in 2013 suggest that the interests of war will continue to dominate the Australian political economy as part of the US empire project. In Gandhian terms it means that the struggle for peace within the individual, and therefore society, is increasingly being swayed towards the urge to dominate and wage wars on others.