Pax Americana, globalization and Catalan independence Good afternoon. I am honored to be today at the Harvard Kennedy School. And I want to acknowledge the tremendous efforts made by the conference organizers to protect freedom of speech and to promote...
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Pax Americana, globalization and Catalan independence Good afternoon. I am honored to be today at the Harvard Kennedy School. And I want to acknowledge the tremendous efforts made by the conference organizers to protect freedom of speech and to promote academic debates. But this very old University is the one where President Woodrow Wilson was dean, who for all its flaws enumerated the fourteen points that in 1918 made possible the concept of democratic self-determination today so central for the Catalan people. It is not my will to go into American politics, but I would like to make some remarks that are important from the Catalan point of view. Since 1945 the West has lived in an international regime governed by rules-based institutions that under the uncontested lead of America has promoted trade liberalization and democracy around the world and has seen through the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The UN, the IMF, The World Bank, the WTO or NATO are probably the most remarkab
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