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- Title: An Empire in Denial: The Limits of US Imperialism (United States)
- Author : Harvard International Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2003
- Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 251 KB
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It used to be only foreigners and those on the fringes of US politics who referred to the "American Empire." Invariably, they did so in order to criticize the United States. Since the attack on the World Trade Center in September 2001, however, there has been a growing volume of more serious writing on the subject of an American empire. The phrase is now heard both in polite academic company and in mainstream public debate. The striking thing is that not all those who now openly use the term "empire" do so pejoratively. A number of commentators--notably Max Boot, Thomas Donnelly, Robert Kaplan, and Charles Krauthammer--seem to relish the idea of a US imperium. "Today there is only one empire,"James Kurth of Swarthmore College declared in a recent article in the Natonal Interest, "the global empire of the United States." Officially, however, the United States remains an empire in denial. In the words of US President George Bush during his presidential election campaign in 2000: "America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused--preferring greatness to power, and justice to glory." Freud defined denial as a primitive psychological defense mechanism against trauma. Perhaps it was therefore inevitable that, in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, US citizens would deny their country's imperial character more vehemently than ever. It may nevertheless be therapeutic to determine the precise nature of this American Empire--since empire it is, in all but name.
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