The unconscious colossus: limits of (& alternatives to) American empire
The unconscious colossus: limits of (& alternatives to) American empire
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DOI:
10.1162/0011526053887419
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发表时间:
2005
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影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
N. Ferguson
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作者:
N. Ferguson
First and foremost, a very great power that has left its mark on the international relations of an era . . . a polity that rules over wide territories and many peoples, since the management of space and multiethnicity is one of the great perennial dilemmas of empire . . . . An empire is by definition . . . not a polity ruled with the explicit consent of its peoples . . . . [But] by a process of assimilation of peoples and democratization of institutions empires can transform themselves into multinational federations or even nation states.1