"America cannot commit to go to war on behalf of 50 countries around the world because that is the formula that is one day going to break down and break out into war."

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The international institutions go around the world preaching liberalization, and the developing countries see that means open up your markets to our commodities, but we aren't going to open our markets to your commodities. In the nineteenth century, they used gunboats. Now they use economic weapons and arm-twisting.

— Joseph Stiglitz