03161nam 2200625 450 991078787050332120230803195447.00-19-984411-9(CKB)2670000000545034(EBL)1653214(SSID)ssj0001211844(PQKBManifestationID)11693788(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001211844(PQKBWorkID)11206148(PQKB)11431053(Au-PeEL)EBL1653214(CaPaEBR)ebr10843289(CaONFJC)MIL580624(OCoLC)872642968(MiAaPQ)EBC1653214(EXLCZ)99267000000054503420140318h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEmpires without imperialism Anglo-American decline and the politics of deflection /Jeanne MorefieldOxford, [England] ;New York, New York :Oxford University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (305 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-938725-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Empires Without Imperialism; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One Strategies of Antiquity; 1 Alfred Zimmern's "Oxford Paradox": Displacement and Athenian Nostalgia; 2 Falling in Love with Athens: Donald Kagan on America and Thucydides's Revisionism; Part Two Metanarrative Strategies; 3 The Round Table's Story of Commonwealth; 4 The Empire Whisperer: Niall Ferguson's Misdirection, Disavowal, and the Perilousness of Neoliberal Time; Part Three Strategies of Character; 5 Empire's Handyman: Jan Smuts and the Politics of International Holism6 Michael Ignatieff's Tragedy: Just As We Are, Here and NowNotes; INDEXThe end of the Cold War ushered in a moment of nearly pure American dominance on the world stage, yet that era now seems ages ago. Since 9/11 many informed commentators have focused on the relative decline of American power in the global system. While some have welcomed this as a salutary development, outspoken proponents of American power--particularly neoconservatives--have lamented this turn of events. As Jeanne Morefield argues in Empires Without Imperialism, the defenders of a liberal international order steered by the US have both invoked nostalgia for a golden liberal past and succumbedLiberalismGreat BritainHistoryLiberalismUnited StatesHistoryImperialismGreat BritainColoniesHistoryUnited StatesInsular possessionsHistoryUnited StatesTerritories and possessionsHistoryLiberalismHistory.LiberalismHistory.Imperialism.320.510941Morefield Jeanne781568MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787870503321Empires without imperialism1733128UNINA