Sponsored by the Foreign Policy Centre, author Robert Cooper said;

"All the conditions for imperialism are still there... the weak still need the strong [oh?] and the strong still need an orderly world [dont we all ?]. A world in which the efficient and well-governed export stability and liberty [how twee].
"Empire and and imperialism have become terms of abuse [wonder why ?] in the post-modern [that word again!] world.
"What is needed is a new kind of imperialism, one acceptable to a world of human rights and cosmopolitan values. [Why 'export' these things if theyre supposedly there already ?]

See p 2 of Independent 28 Mar 2002 for more details
[NB comments in brackets are mine]