"I think there is no real argument that the historical lesson for the United States in the 20th Century has been the need for continued strong American involvement. Parenthetically, there is a bit of confusion there, because I think he's actually calling for hegemony, and I asked him the question why he dismissed...
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American military hegemony in Europe, Asia and the Middle East depends on the ability of the U.S. military to threaten and, if necessary, to use military force to defeat any regional challenge-but at a relatively low cost.
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There have been many sober pronouncements lately about the end American hegemony. Some have reacted with despondence, others with glee. It may be that the end is nigh--it has to end sometime--but we should keep in mind that the forecasters of doom emerge from their caves during every period of hardship.
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The End of Power; Without American hegemony the world would likely return to the dark ages. ... In the history of world politics, it seems, someone is always bidding for hegemony. Today it is the United States; a century ago it was Britain. Before that, it was the French, the Spaniards and so on.
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Article by Tamara Cofman Wittes, Today's Zaman (3/22/07) ... Nowhere have the limits of American hegemony been more clearly on display, and with more serious results, than in the Middle East over the past four years. Iraq is the area where the real limits of American hegemony are most evident.
www.brookings.edu/articles/2007/0322middleeast_wittes.a... www.brookings.edu/articles/2007/0322middleeast_wittes.aspx
The Case for American Hegemon ... Buchanan should learn from Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt or Reagan, fighting on behalf of freedom strengthens American values of liberty and moral clarity. As President Eisenhower said, “We are not good because we are great, we are great because we are good.”...
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The authors' argument about the uniqueness of American hegemony rests on four main pillars. The most obvious is economic: as they point out, the U.S. economy has outstripped almost all of its competitors for much of the past century.
www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/59200/niall-ferguson/he... www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/59200/niall-ferguson/hegemony-or-empire
"nothing." In the real world, however, this unilateral dominance--what political scientists call hegemony--is self-defeating. In the first place, hegemony cannot be sustained. Secondly, attempts to do so may ultimately prove more harmful than beneficial to American interests.
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there is only an American creed.” If America’s ideology based upon the core belief in liberty has provided American hegemony the spiritual foundation, democracy has provided the American hegemony institutional base, thus enabling the Americans to be united under the national flag.
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The Beijing leadership is convinced it has made much headway in combating "American hegemony" and building a multi-polar world order. ... It is understood Beijing is seeking Russian hardware as well as technology in its long-standing bid to combat the threat of American aircraft carriers, the most likely weapon that...
www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/19/china.russia.... www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/19/china.russia.willy/index.html
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