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Beyond American Hegemony

Michael Lind | May 01, 2007
The United States should abandon its futile attempt to secure global hegemony in favor of a concert-of-power foreign-policy strategy.

Why Anglos Lead

Lawrence Mead | Dec 01, 2005
It's no accident of history that Anglo societies dominate the world order.

I Dream of Empire

The National Interest | Apr 14, 2004
Empires have always inspired American imagination, for good and for ill.

America as European Hegemon

Christopher Layne | Jun 01, 2003
Despite broad acceptance of the view that the United States has been an "offshore balancer" with regard to Europe over the past several decades, the facts don't fit the theory--the facts of the past dozen years most particularly.

The Present Opportunity

Adam Garfinkle | Sep 01, 2001
We still live in a dangerous world, but the tenure of U.S. primacy depends less on reacting to threats than on pursuing the opportunities before us.

Bonn Voyage: Kyoto's Uncertain Revival

Daniel Bodansky | Sep 01, 2001
While the Bonn Conference revived an ailing global warming agreement, Kyoto's flaws render it a questionable approach to the longest of long-term politics.
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America Under the Caesars

Michael Lind | Jun 28, 2010
Anti-interventionists allege our leaders traded a strong, austere republic for a weak and sprawling empire predicated on a military might that could not match our own ambitions. This narrative negates real threats and real victories.

Imperialism: the Highest Stage of American Capitalism?

Gideon Rose | Mar 01, 2003
Andrew Bacevich's American Empire is really two books in one: one quite good, the other quite inexplicable.

But the Patient Died

David Pryce-Jones | Mar 01, 2000
The death of the Ottoman Empire was a case of suicide, not homicide.
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