We May Dominate the World

Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus

Hardcover, 512 pages

English language

Published 2023 by PublicAffairs.

ISBN:
978-1-5417-5843-8
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5 stars (2 reviews)

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It more than rhymes! Has the US really been making the. same. exact. mistake. for two centuries of foreign policy? Yes, absolutely yes.

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Like The Dictator’s Handbook, We May Dominate the World stands out for me because it offers a couple of new frameworks for understanding state action and reasoning about its consequences. However, those new frameworks are not trumpeted as the core insight of the work. They have to be teased out of commentary here and there, buried in a sea of names and dates for US interventions across the Americas. Concept one: Regional Hegemony through the Monroe Doctrine. The concept of regional hegemony is not one I was familiar with. I understand a regional hegemon to be a state whose near abroad security threats are so limited that it doesn’t need to spend any substantial lear attention or material resources defending its borders, leaving it free to focus on other matters, like economic development and more distant entanglements. This is a fascinating concept, and one that I think has interesting …

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