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September 2011
Past Event
A Book Discussion on "Sovereignty or Submission: Will Americans Rule Themselves or Be Ruled by Others?"

A Book Discussion on "Sovereignty or Submission: Will Americans Rule Themselves or Be Ruled by Others?"

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
September 21, 2011
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September 2011
Past Event

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Speakers:
Douglas Feith,

Director of Hudson Institute's Center for National Security Strategies

John Fonte,

Author and Director of Hudson Institute's Center for American Common Culture

John O'Sullivan,

Vice President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

James Pinkerton,

Fox News commentator

In his new book, Sovereignty or Submission? (Encounter), Hudson Senior Fellow John Fonte argues that the twenty-first century will witness an epic struggle between the forces of global governance and the sovereignty of liberal democratic states, particularly the U.S. and Israel.

Transnationalists in the United Nations, European Union, but, most importantly, among America's leading elites, seek to establish a "global rule of law." America's voluntary submission to global legal authority would be presented to the American people in rather Orwellian fashion as "leadership" and "engagement."

The global governance project may be utopian, but efforts to implement it ultimately challenge American democracy. Nowhere is this more evident than with the upcoming meeting of the UN General Assembly, which will highlight efforts by the forces of global governance to determine the rules by which democracies defend themselves and decide domestic policy.

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