Once there was an empire that governed roughly a quarter of the world’s population, covered about the same proportion of the Earth’s land surface, and dominated nearly all its oceans. The British ...

Empire’s don’t collapse; they commit inevitable suicide by destroying their primary sources of wealth: respect and industry. The American empire has existed since July 4, 1776 when it was declared as ...

Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire (Farrar, Strous, and Giroux, 2019). The concluding words of Daniel Immerwahr’s new book should leave no one in doubt as to where he stands. “The history of the ...

Andrew Bacevich calls for reckoning with the consequences of American colonial empire in the Philippines: Yet the Philippines represented an altogether different case. By no stretch of the imagination ...

In 2004, journalist Ron Susskind quoted a Bush White House advisor, reportedly Karl Rove, as boasting, “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.” He dismissed Susskind’s ...

NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great Britain and ...

The first option was to let the colonies go. The second was to unify the American colonies with Britain the way Scotland had been united with England. Smith himself was Scottish and, looking back, was ...

This By-invitation commentary is part of a series by global thinkers on the future of American power—examining the forces shaping the country's global standing, from the rise of China to the ...

Many studies on U.S.-Korea relations describe the bilateral interactions to 1905 and the restored diplomatic relations after Korea's liberation in 1945. This study focuses instead on the internar ...