America As Empire : Global Leader or Rogue Power?
In America as Empire, Jim Garrison urges us to face up to the complexities and responsibilities inherent in the indisputable fact that America is now the world's single preeminent power. ""America"", Garrison writes, ""has become what it was founded not to be: established as a haven for those fleeing the abuse of power, it has attained and now wields near absolute power. It has become an empire.""Garrison traces the roots of the American empire to the very beginnings of the republic, in particular to the historic willingness of United States' to use military might in the defense of two consist
1 online resource (169 pages)
9781605097114, 160509711X
1053849521
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: From Republic to Empire
1: America and the World
2: A Mighty Fortress on Shifting Sands
3: America's Journey to Empire
4: The Roots of American Preeminence
5: Empire and Its Discontents
6: The Rise and Fall of Empires
7: The Roman Achievement
8: America at the Choice Point
9: The Final Empire
NOTES
1 AMERICA AND THE WORLD
2 A MIGHTY FORTRESS ON SHIFTING SANDS
3 AMERICA'S JOURNEY TO EMPIRE
4 THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN PREEMINENCE
5 EMPIRE AND ITS DISCONTENTS. 6 THE RISE AND FALL OF EMPIRES
7 THE ROMAN ACHIEVEMENT
8 AMERICA AT THE CHOICE POINT
9 THE FINAL EMPIRE
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ABOUT STATE OF THE WORLD FORUM
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