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Aquarter​ of the way through this century, regime change has become a canonical term. It signifies the overthrow, typically but not exclusively by the United States, of governments around the world disliked by the West, employing for that purpose military force, economic blockade, ideological erosion, or a combination of these. Yet originally the term meant something quite different, a widespread alteration in the West itself – not the sudden transformation of a nation-state by external violence, but the gradual installation of a new international order in peacetime. The pioneers of this conception were the American theorists who developed the idea of international regimes as arrangements assuring co-operative economic relations between the major industrial states, which might or ...

lrb.co.uk     Apr 13, 2025