The American Century

At the dawn of the twentieth century, elit w favored an aggressive american roll abroad. Defenders of greater international authority began to intertwine new foreign policy commitments with an account of the federal constitution in national identity. So i think the big thing here is that the us. Becomes a global power in the early twentieth century at a time after all the primary colonies in the global south have already been claimed. And so what ends up happening during these years is that America constructs an account of its primacy grounded in notions of constitutionalism.