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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... politics . It is not a systematic history of the world's empires , not even its major ones . Rather , it is an ex ... political choices . At the end I have decided to avoid claiming that the United States is or is not an empire . I ...
... land , its settling by migrants from diverse societies , its reli- gious pluralism , its opportunity to build political institutions afresh . But America has never been exempt from scarcity , poverty 4 Questions at the Outset.
... politics . Has the United States helped bring peace and stability ? Or has it , perhaps against all its best intentions , provoked upheaval , disorder , and violence ? To write about being an empire is to ask how our country's political ...
... political organization in which the social elements that rule in the dominant state — the " mother country " or the " metropole " —create a network of allied elites in re- gions abroad who accept subordination in international affairs ...
... political concept for the new decade . When I was finishing this book , Episode III of Star Wars , the last installment of George Lucas's film depiction of empire , was premiering at the movies . The Star Wars series confirms that ...