The American Way Of Empire: How America Won A World—But Lost Her Way
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2019
Published In
The American Way Of Empire: How America Won A World—But Lost Her Way
Abstract
Since the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, traditional American foreign policy has proven inadequate to 21st century challenges of Islamic terrorism and globalization. In this ground-breaking analysis, author James Kurth explains that the roots of America's current foreign policy crisis lie in contradictions of an American empire which attempted to transform traditional American national interests promoted by Presidents like Teddy Roosevelt and FDR into a new American-led global order that has unsuccessfully attempted to promote supposedly universal, rather than uniquely American, ideals. Kurth dates the creation of the American empire to the morning of September 2nd, 1945, when General Douglas MacArthur, at the head of the representatives of the Allied Forces, received the surrender of the representatives of the Empire of Japan.
Published By
Washington Books
Recommended Citation
James Kurth. (2019). The American Way Of Empire: How America Won A World—But Lost Her Way.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-poli-sci/738