The American Way of Empire (eBook)

CONTENTS

Preface ............................................................................................ xiii

Overview: Hegemony

Chapter 1 The American Way of Empire:

The Seventy-Year Life of the U.S. Alliance System ........ 3

Part I: Ideology

Chapter 2 The Protestant Deformation:

The Source of the Ideological Tradition ....................... 57

Chapter 3 War, Peace, and the Ideologies of the

20th Century .............................................................. 81

Chapter 4 Democratization: Successes and Failures ..................... 97

Chapter 5 The Adolescent Empire: America and the

Imperial Idea ............................................................ 115

Part II: Strategy

Chapter 6 Grand Strategy: The Source of the

Realist Tradition ....................................................... 139

Chapter 7 Grand Strategy in the Global Era .............................. 167

Chapter 8 The American Way of Victory ................................... 197

Chapter 9 Europe: NATO Expansion versus the

Russian Sphere .......................................................... 215

Chapter 10 The Pacific: The U.S. Alliance system

versus the Chinese Seas ............................................. 231

Part II

Chapter 6 Grand Strategy: The Source of the

Realist Tradition ....................................................... 139

Chapter 7 Grand Strategy in the Global Era .............................. 167

Chapter 8 The American Way of Victory ................................... 197

Chapter 9 Europe: NATO Expansion versus the

Russian Sphere .......................................................... 215

Chapter 10 The Pacific: The U.S. Alliance system

versus the Chinese Seas ............................................. 231

Part III: Insurgency

Chapter 11 Globalization, Empire, and Islamist Terrorism .......... 259

Chapter 12 The Iraq War: Global Ideology versus

Local Realities ........................................................... 277

Chapter 13 The Neo-Conservatives and the Iraq War .................. 303

Chapter 14 Empire and Immigration .......................................... 319

Part IV: Political Economy

Chapter 15 Between America and the World:

The New York Foreign Policy Elite ............................ 339

Chapter 16 The Foreign Policy of Plutocracies: A Tale

of Two Countries – and Two Kinds of Wealth .......... 365

Chapter 17 Creating a Second American Century ....................... 393

Conclusion .................................................................................... 411

Acknowledgements ........................................................................ 419

End Notes ..................................................................................... 423

Bibliography .................................................................................. 433

Index ............................................................................................. 437

About the Author .......................................................................... 445