Power, Profit and Prestige: A History of American Imperial Expansion by Philip S. Golub

Author:Philip S. Golub [Golub, Philip S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: International Relations, History & Theory, United States, Political Science, History, 21st Century, General
ISBN: 9780745328720
Google: TfNHtAEACAAJ
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2010-06-15T12:49:16+00:00

In short, a ‘new international order is emerging, crafted to suit American imperial objectives’.83 Paul Kennedy, reversing his declinist judgments of a decade earlier, wrote:

Nothing has ever existed like the [present] disparity of power… The Pax Britannica was run on the cheap…Napoleon’s France, Philip II’s Spain had powerful foes and were part of a multipolar system. Charlemagne’s empire was merely western European in stretch. The Roman empire stretched further afield, but there was another great empire in Persia and a larger one in China. There is no comparison.84

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