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Members of the Bush Administration, of course, are not so crass as to admit that their aims in Iraq are imperialist. Yet U.S. soldiers are already finding themselves in situations miserably familiar to those of the old imperial powers. Take the deaths last week in Fallujah. Young soldiers firing on...
What is one to make of all this? In one sense, nothing at all. As Ferguson has argued, the U.S. doesn't seem prepared to make the long-term commitment of resources and talent to its imperial possessions that, for better or worse, Britain did. But let's pretend the...
Second, imperialism pollutes the imperial nation. I grew up in Liverpool when it was one of the British Empire's great ports. Its docks were full of ships laden with palm oil and sugarcane, with liners bound for Cape Town and Colombo. You might think, to read some of imperialism...
Buckler’s research has focused on imperial Russia. Her first book, entitled The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia received the “Best Work of Literary and Cultural Criticism for 2000” award from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East-European...
The answer, in all likelihood, is no. There are two main reasons for this. First of all, the Founding Fathers explicitly sought to mitigate the risk of foreign engagements. Consequently, the structure of the U.S. government has a built-in check on imperial-minded leaders. As The Economist noted last...