1. cambridge.org

    May 9, 2023The United States is an imperial nation. From its origins as a settler colony to its status today as a dominant economic and political power armed with the largest military force on earth, it has established and extended its power over others—taking land, extracting resources, exploiting labor, and ensuring unequal relationships that benefit its interests.
  2. think.taylorandfrancis.com

    Jan 15, 2025Rationale and themes. There is a rich historiography within business history that engages with imperialism and colonialism and the projection of extra-territorial power explicit in imperial interactions (for recent examples see Mollan 2020; Decker 2022; Kleinoeder 2020 & 2022; Uche 2015).Given that contemporary international politics is increasingly dominated by questions of ...
  3. What is an empire? In the words of one of the few modern historians to attempt a genuinely comparative study of empires, it is . First and foremost, a very great power that has left its mark on the international relations of an era . . . a polity that rules over wide territories and many peoples, since the management of space and multiethnicity is one of the great perennial dilemmas of empire ...
  4. The presidency is of course an elected rather than a hereditary office, but its recent incumbents have sometimes appeared to conduct business in the style of the last German kaiser, allowing policy to be determined by inter-agency competition rather than by forging a sense of collective responsibility.
  5. cambridge.org

    17 See my article, " The Conservative World of Mr. Justice Sutherland," American Political Science Review, Vol. 32, pp. 443 -77 (June, 1938)CrossRef Google Scholar.. The businessman's devotion to free enterprise, to laissez-faire, has always been chiefly verbal.In his American Commonwealth, James Bryce noted that "one-half of the Capitalists are occupied in preaching laissez-faire as ...
  6. tandfonline.com

    Externally, the order is under attack by revisionist states, competitors, and violent non-state actors. Ideological incompatibility and differences in motives notwithstanding, these hostile forces are increasingly united in their struggle against the liberal order - with the risks of its possible disintegration all too familiar to the ...

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