351. The Empire Strikes Out: The "New Imperialism": and Its Fatal Flaws
- Author:
- Ivan Eland
- Publication Date:
- 11-2002
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- The Cato Institute
- Abstract:
- Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, several commentators have advanced the idea of security through empire. They claim that the best way to protect the United States in the 21st century is to emulate the British, Roman, and other empires of the past. The logic behind the idea is that if the United States can consolidate the international system under its enlightened hegemony, America will be both safer and more prosperous. Although the word “empire” is not used, the Bush administration's ambitious new National Security Strategy seems to embrace the notion of neoimperialism.
- Topic:
- Foreign Policy and Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Political Geography:
- United States