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The American empire / [edited by] John C. Davenport.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- World in focus.
- World in focus
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Foreign relations--2001-2009.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Terrorism--Government policy--United States.
- Terrorism--Government policy.
- Imperialism.
- Genre:
- War on Terrorism, 2001-
- Physical Description:
- 152 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Chelsea House, [2007]
- Summary:
- The American Empire presumes the existence of, at the very least, an imperial trajectory to the foreign relations of the United States. Each of the book's three sections focuses on a separate developmental phase, creating a basic and graspable conceptual framework for students. The first set of essays searches the past for the origins of American imperialism and the roots of American preeminence. The second section looks at how the United States applies--or sometimes misapplies--its unparalleled power and influence overseas, as well as the domestic implications of such actions. Each of the essays in the final section considers a future in which the United States acknowledges its imperial status and asserts itself accordingly, examining the beneficial and deleterious effects of a self-consciously active empire.
- Contents:
- Introduction / by John C. Davenport
- Is America an imperial power? / by Bruce Cumings
- Neither new nor nefarious : the liberal empire strikes back / by Max Boot
- Imperial amnesia / by John B. Judis
- The compulsive empire / by Robert Jervis
- America and the ambivalence of power / by G. John Ikenberry
- The empire's new frontiers / by Michael T. Klare
- America's imperial dilemma / by Dimitri K. Simes
- What to do with American primacy / by Richard N. Haass
- The counsel of geopolitics / by Parag Khanna
- U.S. power and strategy after Iraq / by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
- The reluctant imperialist : terrorism, failed states, and the case for America empire / by Sebastian Mallaby
- The anti-American century? / by Ivan Krastev.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-145) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780791091951
- 0791091953
- OCLC:
- 81942484
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