Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its PredecessorsHarvard University Press, 2006. ápr. 24. - 384 oldal Contemporary America, with its unparalleled armaments and ambition, seems to many commentators a new empire. Others angrily reject the designation. What stakes would being an empire have for our identity at home and our role abroad? |
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... union of continental scope ; in that sense , as Jefferson said , the United States would be an empire of liberty.1 From the out- set , however , it was to be different from other imperial states : wiser , freer , benevolent , and ...
... Union , the former elites of some territories might be totally subordinated or physically liquidated . But often these elites seek the protection of the more powerful state ; they enroll voluntarily to avoid what they fear as more ...
... unions , citizens move- ments . The forces of civil society stood independent of the state and undermined in particular the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe . Civil society brought about the springtime of peoples in 1989 , helped ...
... union of Europe , and the slow , perilous diffusion of nuclear arsenals will set limits to the current interregnal imperium . It is not possible to make sensible pre- dictions in detail . As the collapse of the Soviet system ...
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