• An Empire Like No Other: Britain's unique experience; America's new chapter -- Few of us believe these matters can be left to international agencies like the U.N. In certain special circumstances-where there is no strategic interest on the part of important powers, no bitter dispute over sovereignty, and some long-standing sense of nationhood to build on-the U.N. can help matters along, as it has in Cambodia. In places where America's interests are at stake, however, we need to act in our own interests. (Added: 14-May-2004 Hits: 319 Rating: 8.00 Votes: 2) Rate It

• An Empire? You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet -- What would an American empire look like? Our Empire would most likely use the Roman Empire's tactic of letting local elites govern while we maintained control of the military. Most importantly, however, our Empire would improve the living conditions for the majority of people in the lands we conquered. (Added: 14-May-2004 Hits: 342 Rating: 5.00 Votes: 2) Rate It

• Bringing Democracy to the Arab World -- There are 22 Arab countries. Of the world's 170 other governments, 121, or 71 percent, are elected. The number of Arab countries with freely elected governments: 0. (Added: 14-May-2004 Hits: 240 Rating: 3.00 Votes: 1) Rate It

• Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World -- In this article, Charles Krauthammer argues that the US should recognize the reality of a unipolar world and accept - rather than shy away from - the responsibility that unipolarity presents for American global leadership. (Added: 13-May-2004 Hits: 209 Rating: 9.00 Votes: 1) Rate It

• Empire or Not? A Quiet Debate Over U.S. Role -- Provides a good overview of the scholarly debate on American empire that was already taking place prior to 9/11. (Added: 14-May-2004 Hits: 218 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Fighting Terror with a Forceful Neo-Con Stick -- A review of Frum and Perle, "An End to Evil." (Added: 17-May-2004 Hits: 130 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Imperial America and War -- For the United States to succeed at its objective of global preeminence, it will be necessary for Americans to "re-conceive their role from a traditional nation-state to an imperial power." (Added: 17-May-2004 Hits: 165 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• In Defense of Empires -- Empires have undeservedly got a bad name, particularly in America since President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the end of the Age of Empires and ushered in the Age of Nations. But this was not always so... (Added: 13-May-2004 Hits: 157 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It

• In Defense of Empires -- Empires have unfairly gotten a bad name, not least in U.S. domestic politics. This is particularly unfortunate, as the world needs an American pax to provide both global peace and prosperity. The most urgent task in the new imperium is to bring the world of Islam into the modern world, without seeking to alter its soul. In this monograph, Deepak Lal gives reasons to believe the United States should be able to fulfill this imperial task. But is it willing? (Added: 9-Sep-2004 Hits: 273 Rating: 4.00 Votes: 2) Rate It

• In praise of American empire -- The critics charge that America is no different from other rapacious empires that have trampled the continents in previous centuries. Within the universities, intellectuals speak of American policies as "neo-imperialist," because they promote the goals of empire while eschewing the term. Are the critics right? (Added: 13-May-2004 Hits: 166 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Is the United States an Empire? -- Reviews the competing views of Niall Ferguson and Robert Kagan. (Added: 13-May-2004 Hits: 164 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Paving the Road to Hell: The Failure of U.N. Peacekeeping -- William Shawcross shows how U.N. peacekeeping has failed but does not draw the obvious conclusion: the world's hot spots need U.S. intervention, and plenty of it. (Added: 19-May-2004 Hits: 204 Rating: 1.00 Votes: 1) Rate It

• Preemption, Unilateralism, and Hegemony -- The recent debate over whether there is an American "empire" would have completely flummoxed the Founding Fathers--that is what they explicitly set out to establish. The very first paragraph of the very first Federalist reveals that Hamilton's subject is "the fate of an empire." Jefferson's purpose was to create "an empire for liberty." Their debate was over means, not ends. (Added: 14-May-2004 Hits: 141 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Rebuilding America's Defense: Strategy, Forces & Resources for New Century -- [PDF](September 2000) The Project for the New American Century argues that the US should extend its global leadership by increasing military spending, maintaining strategic nuclear superiority, developing and deploying global missile defenses, and controlling the new “international commons” of space and “cyberspace.” (Added: 13-May-2004 Hits: 91 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• The Case for American Empire -- The most realistic response to terrorism is for America to embrace its imperial role. (Added: 17-May-2004 Hits: 182 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

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