The New American Empire: A 21st Century Teach-In on American Foreign Policy

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In The New American Empire, a group of leading authorities on American foreign policy identify the precursors of this new direction in the U.S. overseas ventures of the 20th century. Offering an accessible, critical overview of foreign relations, they assess both the distinct continuities between past and present U.S. policy, as well as what makes the current administration's policies dramatically different. The essays also reveal how those policies serve the ends of favored groups, for whom imperialism pays both ideologically and materially.

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The vast ambition of the geostrategic rulers around George Bush the Younger to achieve global domination ... is already running afoul of its own systemic preconditions.

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Lloyd Gardner is Research Professor of History at Rutgers University. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a past president of the society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. Marilyn B. Young is Professor of History at New York University, and Director of the International Center for Advanced Studies Project on the Cold War as Global Conflict. Prior to this, she taught at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD from Harvard.