Article: Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace.(Empires, history; American imperialism)

Article: Empires, from Roman to Russian
Jerusalem Post;  July 20, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Jerusalem Post 07-20-2001 Headline: Empires, from Roman to Russian Byline: Ralph...the story goes. Yet these European empires lasted a long time. Far from being...this sweeping and penetrating study, empires were diverse in character and well...

Article: ANALYSIS: WHY THE SOVIET EMPIRE FAILED
United Press International;  March 4, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Press International via COMTEX) - - Empires are resolutely still not fashionable...the time of the American Revolution, empires are presented as inherently evil...Americans of recent generations have seen empires as being inherently evil. They saw...

Article: Empire & 'civilizing' missions, past & present.(Modern imperialism; empires)
Daedalus;  March 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......rulers have often sought to make their empires visible as such by following regional...imperially. Even the past century, in which empires often shunned that designation, is...reason: as an era in which Western empires, influenced by the Enlightenment...

Article: Will the distant past of empires become the near future? Since the era of de-colonisation, many of the world's poorest countries have proven unable to govern themselves and manage their economies. For their sake, and for the stability of the world, it may be time to reconsider the benefits of neo-colonialism, argues a leading Russian political scientist.(Economic aspects of Soviet Union)
European Business Forum;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......US approach The world remembers the empires of the past only too well to accept...turns to its own history, the Age of Empires. This emergence of neo-colonialism...intercultural dialogue. The old European empires did their best to accomplish this...

Article: Review: Books: Why empires fall apart Anne Applebaum on a provocative study which compares the Soviet Union with other imperial powers
The Sunday Telegraph London;  August 27, 2000 ;     700+ words ......had studied the history of modern empires, was perfectly predictable. In fact...Indonesia can properly be described as empires; the consequences of imperial collapse...in context, and compared to other empires which preceded or overlapped with...

Article: REAGAN GOT SOMETHING RIGHT: ALL EMPIRES ARE EVIL
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  December 29, 1992 ;     360 words ......Bergen County, NJ) 12-29-1992 REAGAN GOT SOMETHING RIGHT: ALL EMPIRES ARE EVIL Date: 12-29-1992, Tuesday Section: OPINION Edition...empire," he was unwittingly pointing to what is true of all empires. They can't escape from being evil. Built into the very...

Article: American Empires: Past and Present*
The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...L'auteur tablit une typologie des empires. Qu'ils soient directs ou indirects, les empires possdent ncessairement des colonies. Ce n'est pas le cas des empires informels, mais ceux-ci peuvent tre...

Article: Marshall, P.J. The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c. 1750-1783.(Book review)
History: Review of New Books;  January 1, 2006 ;     415 words ......P. J. The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America e. 1750-17...book as the first and second British empires have almost always been studied as...Atlantic empire and India, then Ideas of Empires in the Old and the New empires, the...

Article: The imperial fallacy.(Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - And Why They Fall; Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors)(Book review)
The American Prospect;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Doubleday, 432 pages, $27.95 AMONG EMPIRES: AMERICAN ASCENDANCY AND ITS PREDECESSORS...lessons Americans could learn from empires of the past. Marxists, to be sure...Mongol, Mughal, Spanish, and Ottoman empires together in the elastic category of...

Article: The unconscious colossus: limits of (& alternatives to) American empire.
Daedalus;  March 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......attempt a genuinely comparative study of empires, it is First and foremost, a very...and democratization of institutions empires can transform themselves into multinational...there have been no more than seventy empires in history, if The Times Atlas of...

Article: Emancipation & empire, from Cromwell to Karl Rove.
Daedalus;  March 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......that while there were certainly bad empires (usually Eastern and despotic in character), there were also good empires--notably that of Rome, the cradle...were made to construct monarchical empires--in Mexico (Iturbide, 1823-1824; Maximilian...

Article: Is the United States an empire?
United Press International;  July 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ......fundamentally different from the major empires of the past? Two intellectuals who...ranks as one of the most powerful empires in all history. Militarily, economically...States has all the attributes of past empires, he said. U.S. bases exist in almost...

Article: IS THE UNITED STATES AN EMPIRE?
United Press International;  July 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ......fundamentally different from the major empires of the past? Two intellectuals who...ranks as one of the most powerful empires in all history. "Militarily, economically...States has all the attributes of past empires," he said. U.S. bases exist in almost...

Article: The Anglo-American global imperial legacy: is there a better way?(The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain; Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World; A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire; Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors )(Book review)
Canadian Journal of History;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain by Nicholas...Press, 2006. ix, 389 pp. $27.95 US (cloth). Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World by Brian W...Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire by Sugata Bose. Cambridge, Harvard ...