Foreign Policy (september-october 2006)

WHY PAUL BREMER WAS THE REAL WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION GLOBAL POLITICS, ECONOMICS, AND IDEAS Are Empires Past Their Prime? by Niall Ferguson SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2006 ForeignPolicy.com To win International Law Firm of the Year, rank among the best everywhere. The American Lawyer First Litigation Department of the Year award (2002), finalist (2004), honorable mention (2005) Product Liability Litigation Department of the Year (2004), finalist (2005) Asian Legal Business International Law Firm of the Year for China Law (2005) Arbitration Law Firm of the Year for Southeast Asia (2005) International Law Firm of the Year (2003) North American Law Firm of the Year (2003) Bloomberg Top five, U.S. bankruptcy law firms (2001 and 2002) Number one for number of real estate M&A deals (2003– 2005) The BTI Consulting Group, Inc. Number one for client service (2002, 2004 and 2006) Client Service Hall of Fame (2006) Number one, tech-savvy law firm (2003) Chambers and Partners U.S. Litigation Firm of the Year (2003) Corporate Board Member Top five, America’s Best Corporate Lawyers (2005) Corporate Counsel Most mentions overall, Who Represents America’s Biggest Companies (2005) Dealogic Number one in wind power project finance by value and number of deals (2004) Thomson Financial & Bloomberg Number one for number of M&A deals worldwide (2000– Q2 2006) 2200 lawyers in 30 locations. One firm worldwide. www.jonesday.com The State of Empire T he historian Edward Gibbon once wrote, “Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.” Gibbon penned those words about the decline and fall