Illusions of Power and Empire1

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4987675
AutoresJames N Rosenau (George Washington University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen44
Número4
Páginas73-87
Fecha de publicación2005-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistory and Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-2303.2005.00343.x
OpenAlexW2146481113
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas9

Subsequent to the end of the Cold War, analysts groped for an understanding of the overall structures of world politics that marked the emergence of a new epoch. As a result, the concept of empire became a major preoccupation, with the economic and military power of the United States considered sufficient for regarding it as an empire. Due to the proliferation of new microelectronic technologies and for a variety of other specified reasons, however, the constraints inherent in the new epoch make it seem highly unlikely that the U.S. or any other country can ever achieve the status of an empire. In effect, the substantial shrinkage of time and distance in the current period has led to the replacement of the age of the nation-state that originated with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 with the age of the networked individual. It is an age that has developed on a global scale and that has brought an end to the history of empires

Ancient history · Diplomacy · Economic history · Empire · Epoch (astronomy) · Great power · Illusion · Physics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Treaty · Variety (cybernetics) · World history · Computer Science · Globalization and Cultural Identity · History · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Psychology · World Systems and Global Transformations