2007 Lecture Series Professor Joseph A Camilleri Limits

2007 Lecture Series Professor Joseph A. Camilleri Limits to Empire: An Evolutionary Perspective

Limits to Empire America’s empire is not like empires of times past, built on colonies, conquest and the white man’s burden. . . The 21 st century imperium is a new invention in the annals of political science. . . a global hegemony whose grace notes are free markets, human rights and democracy. Michael Ignatieff, 2003

Limits to Empire Only someone blind to the history of the United States, its obsessive drive for control of oil, its endless expansion of military bases around the world, its domination of other countries through its enormous economic power, its violations of the human rights of millions of people, whether directly or through proxy governments, could make that statement. Howard Zinn, 2003

Limits to Empire Commentary on US Empire flourishing business much of it in US

Limits to Empire Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire by Anne Norton (Yale University Press)

Limits to Empire PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in America’s Foreign and Defense Policy Edited by Williliam Kristol & Robert Kagan

Limits to Empire Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World by Charles Krauthammer AEI Press for the American Enterprise Institute, 2004

Limits to Empire America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order by Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke

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Limits to Empire American Empire Project – Metropolitan Books

Limits to Empire American Empire Project – Metropolitan Books

Limits to Empire American Empire Project – Metropolitan Books

Limits to Empire • American Empire Project – Metropolitan Books

Limits to Empire • American Empire Project – Metropolitan Books

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Limits to Empire Much of the literature (especially American) is: § short on analytical insight § US-centric § preoccupied with ‘good’ and ‘evil’ in US policy Some of the better literature ≠ American ▪ US is politically schizophrenic, torn between unilateralism and multilateralism ▪ Unable to rule over foreign lands ▪ A backseat driver of the global economy ▪ an ideological phantom, proclaiming attractive values, which its militarism brutally contradicts

Limits to Empire Some of the more incisive analysis ≠ to be found in English To illustrate. . .

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Limits to Empire Guillaume Parmentier (dir) Les Etats-Unis aujourd'hui : choc et changement Odile Jacob – 2004

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Limits to Empire Iraq Coalition Casualties Period US UK Other March – May 2003 (end of major combat) 140 33 0 May 2003 – June 2004 (“sovereignty” returned to Iraq) 715 13 18 June 2004 – January 2005 (Iraq elections) 579 25 27 Feb 2005 – Dec 2005 (new Iraq elections) 718 27 58 Dec 2005 – March 2007 1071 36 21 Total 3223 134 124 Source: Iraq Coalition Casualties Count (http: //icasualties. org/oif/ sighted 21 March 2007)

Limits to Empire US Wounded in Iraq Period March – June 2003 July –Dec 2003 Jan –June 2004 July –Dec 2004 Jan –August 2005 Sept 2005 – April 2006 May 2006 – Feb 2007 Total 643 1658 3242 4735 3105 4363 5548 23417 Source: Iraq Coalition Casualties Count (http: //icasualties. org/oif/ sighted 21 March 2007)

Limits to Empire US Trade Balance in US $ billions Year Total Goods Services 1960 1970 1980 1990 3. 5 2. 3 -19. 4 -81. 1 4. 9 2. 6 -25. 5 -109. 0 -1. 4 -0. 3 6. 1 27. 9 2000 2006 -375. 4 -763. 6 -452. 4 -836. 0 77. 0 72. 5 Compiled from official statistics of the U. S. Department of Commerce

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2007 Lecture Series Professor Joseph A. Camilleri Limits to Empire: An Evolutionary Perspective