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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... regime , which may , however , allow enclaves of semi- autonomy . Nations that have empires rule their possessions abroad by authoritarian methods while they often govern their homelands by rep- resentative systems . No British subject ...
... regime imposed upon the Indians or Nigerians or Irish ; no French citizens would have allowed themselves to be governed as they expected Vietnamese or Algerian subjects to be governed . One of the criteria of empires is precisely this ...
... regimes on overseas territories . Empire is a form of 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 ...
... regimes of Eastern Europe . Civil society brought about the springtime of peoples in 1989 , helped open the Berlin Wall , and brought single - party regimes to their knees . Free markets , private property , and liberal constitutions ...
... regimes , subject to decay and disinte- gration from within . It behooves Americans to recall that all politi- cal triumphs are ephemeral . The Athenians defeated Persia and lost to Sparta . The Spanish conquered much of the Americas ...