Daniel Bessner on the Restraint v. Liberal Internationalism Debate
The Lawfare Podcast
The United States Is an Empire Burlesque
i was really struck by your the title of your essay, empire burlesque. And i'm curious if you could just elaborate a bit about why you chose that title. Ah, basically everyone accepts that the united states is an empire. So it's always resting to try to defend what has become so common sense. There have been debates within the political science profession about hegemanye versus imperiaism. But to me, i mean, those are ultimately like the definition of academic as it were. m so y, the unitedStates is an empire from its very beginning.
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