The American Empire
Pax Americana or Pox Americana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9202004 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Bellamy Foster (0000-0001-7418-3004), Robert W Mcchesney |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monthly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520 |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14452/mr-056-04-2004-08_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2011413017 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered a commencement address at American University in Washington, D.C., in which he declared that the peace that the United States sought was "not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war." His remarks were a response to criticisms of the United States advanced in a recently published Soviet text on military strategy. Kennedy dismissed the charge that "American imperialist circles" were "preparing to unleash different kinds of wars" including "preventative war." The Soviet text, he pointed out, had stated, "The political aims of American imperialists were and still are to enslave economically and politically the European and other capitalist countries and, after the latter are transformed into obedient tools, to unify them in various military-political blocs and groups directed against the socialist countries. The main aim of all this is to achieve world domination." In Kennedy's words, these were "wholly baseless and incredible claims," the work of Marxist "propagandists." "The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war."This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Ancient history · Charge (physics) · Economic history · Empire · First world war · Marxist philosophy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Politics of the United States · Sociology · World War II · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2013 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |