The Imperial Tense: Prospects and Problems of American Empire

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Overview

Does the United States today preside over a global empire? America's emergence as the world's dominant power in the 1990s nurtured the perception—initially more pronounced abroad than at home—that with the passing of the cold war the United States had indeed become an imperial republic. Some observers, convinced that American power is necessarily benign, welcome that new reality. Others are not so sure. In The Imperial Tense, Andrew Bacevich has drawn together a stimulating collection of arguments on a subject of compelling current importance. Since September 11 and the ensuing “war on terror,” President Bush's sweeping rhetoric and national security strategy has affirmed the imperial nature of American foreign policy,
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Overview

Does the United States today preside over a global empire? America's emergence as the world's dominant power in the 1990s nurtured the perception—initially more pronounced abroad than at home—that with the passing of the cold war the United States had indeed become an imperial republic. Some observers, convinced that American power is necessarily benign, welcome that new reality. Others are not so sure. In The Imperial Tense, Andrew Bacevich has drawn together a stimulating collection of arguments on a subject of compelling current importance. Since September 11 and the ensuing “war on terror,” President Bush's sweeping rhetoric and national security strategy has affirmed the imperial nature of American foreign policy, provoking concerns over where those ambitions may lead. What is the nature and scope of the American empire? What are its prospects and challenges? Is American power adequate for the task of managing a global imperium? And what of will—are the American people prepared to pay the price that the preservation of that empire may demand? The Imperial Tense offers cogent reflections on these and related questions by leading scholars and commentators, including Mr. Bacevich (who has also written the Introduction), James Chace, Stanley Hoffmann, Charles Krauthammer, Charles Maier, David Rieff, Deepak Lal, John Milbank, Jonathan Freedland, Peter Bender, Martin Walker, Perry Anderson, Jedediah Purdy, G. John Ikenberry, Stephen Books, William Wohlworth, David Marquand, David North, Gabriel Ash, Ivan Eland, and Victor Davis Hanson.

Editorial Reviews

CHOICE
An outstanding introduction to the growing debate on the implications and import of US 'hyperpower.'
Concord Bridge
...Provides a panoramic view of the empire debate...
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First Things
...Well worth reading for…bracing arguments, pro and con, on whether or in what sense America is an empire.
Royal United Services Institute Journal
An especially useful guide to a complex and controversial debate.
— Michael Cox
The American Conservative
...This collection reflects most of the distribution curve of current opinion on the subject.
The New York Review Of Books
The essays collected…are a curious amalgam of military hubris and cultural anxiety: they dutifully document both America's truly awesome military reach and the widespread national uncertainty about what to do with it.
Virginia Quarterly Review
He has done the ongoing debate about America's role in the world a great service by bringing these pieces together in a convenient package.
New York Review of Books
The essays collected...are a curious amalgam of military hubris and cultural anxiety: they dutifully document both America's truly awesome military reach and the widespread national uncertainty about what to do with it.
Virginia Quarterly Review
He has done the ongoing debate about America's role in the world a great service by bringing these pieces together in a convenient package.
Publishers Weekly
There's a host of issues surrounding the U.S. and what many see as its empire as it pushes to confront terrorism-and this balanced collection of mostly scholarly articles addresses many of them. For the most part, the pieces are nuanced, examining subtleties in a world where the U.S. is the sole global power. There are no epiphanies, but pieces discuss such topics as how the U.S. can both confront authoritarian regimes and promote human rights, how American policy should change in order to prevent a further international backlash and whether the U.S. is doomed to fall, like previous empires. Some of the articles gathered by Bacevich (American Empire) hew to familiar arguments-a few, like journalist Charles Krauthammer, argue unabashedly for American power; others seem stuck in a pompous, crude anti-Americanism, as when John Millbank calls on the West "to abandon our global idolatrous worship of sacralized absolute sovereignty, and the formally neutral market." But these pieces are the exceptions. To the editor's credit, the essays appear to be carefully chosen, with an equal number critical and accepting of America's increasing global power. At their best, they display a measure of wit, as when one essayist writes: "Whatever its fate, America, too, will live on-for its Constitution, its movies, and for having placed the first man on the moon." (Sept. 26) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
American Conservative
...This collection reflects most of the distribution curve of current opinion on the subject.
Choice
An outstanding introduction to the growing debate on the implications and import of US 'hyperpower.'
New York Review Of Books
The essays collected…are a curious amalgam of military hubris and cultural anxiety: they dutifully document both America's truly awesome military reach and the widespread national uncertainty about what to do with it.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781566635332
  • Publisher: Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
  • Publication date: 8/6/2003
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 857,135
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.46 (h) x 0.88 (d)

Meet the Author

Andrew Bacevich teaches international relations at Boston University. He has recently published American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy to considerable acclaim. He lives in Walpole, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Introduction
I Back to an Imperial Future?
America's Responsibility, America's Mission 5
Liberal Imperialism 10
In Defense of Empires 29
The Unipolar Era 47
America's Driver for World Domination 66
II The Nature of American Empire
The New Rome 81
New Rome, New Jerusalem 93
Universal Nation 102
Playground Bully 111
In Search of Absolute Security 119
An Empire Unlike Any Other 134
What Empire? 146
III Imperial Strategies
Sovereignty, Empire, Capital, and Terror 159
Sheriff and Missionary 172
Imperial Ambitions 183
Imperial Limits 202
Imperial Choices 211
IV Imperial Prospects
A Citizen's Response 229
The Empire's Coming Crisis 238
Who Will Do the Dirty Work? 245
Index 261

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