The American Imperium?
November 2003
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Title: Is America an Imperial Power?
Author: Bruce Cumings
"That the United States would be hegemonic was inevitable from Bretton Woods onward. That it might also become an empire was not."
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Title: Neither New nor Nefarious: The Liberal Empire Strikes Back
Author: Max Boot
"Compared with the grasping old imperialism of the past, America's ‘liberal imperialism' pursues far different, and more ambitious, goals. It aims to instill democracy in lands that have known tyranny, in the hope that doing so will short-circuit terrorism, military aggression, and weapons proliferation."
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Title: Bush's Revolution
Author: Ivo H. Daalder James M. Lindsay
"At heart, Bush is a revolutionary. Everything he has done in his first 32 months as president shows that he is committed to challenging the existing order. He has been audacious rather than cautious, proactive rather than reactive, risk-prone rather than risk-averse. In his actions as well as his doctrines, he has changed the course of American foreign policy."
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Title: America and the Ambivalence of Power
Author: G. John Ikenberry
"While some policymakers want to use us supremacy to resist multilateralism and the rule of law, the lesson of history is that even powerful states-and certainly a unipolar America-gain advantage by supporting and operating within an international system of rules and institutions."
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Title: The Empire's New Frontiers
Author: Michael T. Klare
"The United States . . . wants to enhance its own strategic position in south-central Eurasia, much as Great Britain attempted in the late nineteenth century. This effort encompasses anti-terrorism and the pursuit of oil, but many in Washington also see it as an end in itself-as the natural behavior of a global superpower engaged in global dominance."
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Title: The Counsel of Geopolitics
Author: Parag Khanna
"America's 'exceptionalism'-its hope of defeating the cycles of history—hinges on using power now to permanently change the rules of the geopolitical game in everyone's favor, including America's own."
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Title: Book Reviews: Imperial Nostalgia
Author: Sumit Ganguly
Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in September, country by country, day by day.
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Title: Major US Troop Deployments
A map of Major US Troop Deployments
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