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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... values and tastes that privilege or de- fer to the culture of the metropole . Whether or not we decide that America has become an empire , to have the term so debated reveals a historical change in public con- sciousness . Recall the ...
... values and our commitment to prosperity and welfare . This does not mean that its preponderance must be based on force . For many observers , the United States has become an empire of a new type , its ascendancy based not only on ...
... values ? Celebrants of nationalist democracy — consider The New Republic from Herbert Croly to Peter Beinart — see no danger , but fear of the degradation of democracy has remained a powerful argument for critics who have warned against ...
... values , the arrogance that insists , no matter what brutal exceptions may ensue : " Trust us ; we're uniquely selfless . " Little more than a decade after Americans took pride in their apparently un- bounded triumph in world politics ...
... with the preponderance it now enjoys because the country opposed succes- sive would - be totalitarian empires . I am more skeptical about the value of any power's unchallenged ascendancy — even that of the 14 Questions at the Outset.