America's Imperial Dilemma
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3531998 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dimitri K Simes (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 91 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Foreign Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20033759 |
| OpenAlex | W134449053 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
The United States increasingly looks, walks, and talks like an empire. It should therefore heed the lessons of its predecessors, exercising strong and determined global leadership. At the same time, it must avoid the temptation to meddle when American interests are not at stake. This means, among other things, dropping the doctrine of universal democracy promotion
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US.India.China
Social Capital and Liberal Democracy
Strategic Culture and American Empire
Approaches to Defining “Empire” and Characterizing United States Influence in the Contemporary World
What’s This, Then? “Romanes Eunt Domus”? 1
Hegemony, not empire
Empire by Denial? Debating US Power
Restoration and Revolution in Putin's Foreign Policy
Biometric voter registration
On the limits of empire
What is an Empire? Assessing the postcolonial contribution to the American Empire Debate
Globalization, Inequality, and Growth in the Caribbean
Democracy promotion as a world value
Intervention and Empire
Sovereignty and its Presuppositions
An umbrella of legitimacy
Forging Democracy at Gunpoint
The Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention
What’s Empire Got to Do With It? The Derivation of America’s Foreign Policy
Is the United States in decline-again? An essay
What's at Stake in the American Empire Debate
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,05 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |