The Politics of Projecting American Power at Home

Foreign policy, apart from insuring defense, sing resources and opening markets, is to establish hegemony, hegemony, not over other nations, but within the united states. Political scientists have an argument about political alignments. It's an argument that underwrites a certain understanding of american exceptionalism. I think there is a way in which social conflict has been absorbed into the party system. We see it now when people are talking about the republicans embracing a workerist ideology.