509) De volta ao tema dos EUA como poder imperial

O biógrafo de Keynes e autor de um "much acclaimed" The Road from Serfdom, Lord Skidelsky, volta ao tema dos EUA enquanto novo império.
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Hot, Cold & Imperial
By Robert Skidelsky
The question of how the world should be run, and America's part in its running, is the subject of much academic and political discussion in Washington these days. The factual questions are: Is the United States on the road to becoming an empire like the Roman and British Empires before it? What are the prospects for such an enterprise in today's world? More speculatively, does globalization require an imperial underpinning? There are also questions of value: Is imperialism a good or bad thing? Should the United States sacrifice its republican institutions in order to fulfil an imperial vocation?

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