Illusion
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic.
From Washington to Baghdad, the debate over American empire is back. Five new books weigh in, some celebrating the imperial project as the last best hope of humankind, others attacking it as cause for worry. What they all fail to understand is that U.S. power is neither as great as most claim nor as dangerous as others fear.
- G. John Ikenberry
Foreign Affairs, March/April 2004
From Washington to Baghdad, the debate over American empire is back. Five new books weigh in, some celebrating the imperial project as the last best hope of humankind, others attacking it as cause for worry. What they all fail to understand is that U.S. power is neither as great as most claim nor as dangerous as others fear.
- G. John Ikenberry
Foreign Affairs, March/April 2004