TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anderson,Perry
TI  - American foreign policy and its thinkers
SN  - 9781786630483 
AV  - 002 E 744 A548a 2017
U1  - 327.73009/04 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Verso
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Imperialismo
KW  - Historia
KW  - Siglo XX
KW  - Siglo XXI
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1945-1989
KW  - 1989-
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Relaciones exteriores
N1  - Originally published: 2015; Imperium. Prodromes
Crystallization
Security
Keystones
Perimeters
Recalibration
Liberalism militant
The incumbent
Consilium. Native traditions
Crusaders
Realist ideals
Economy first
Outside the castle
N2  - "Since the birth of the nation, the idea of empire has been at the heart of the United States' image of itself. Through a close reading of both the acknowledged grand strategists as well as the more non-conformist foreign policy analysts, Anderson charts the entwined historical development of America's imperial reach and its role as the general guarantor of capital. The tensions between these are traced from the closing stages of the Second World War through the Cold War to the War on Terror. Despite the defeat of the USSR, Anderson shows that the planetary structures for warfare and surveillance have not been retracted but extended. The future of the Empire remains to be settled"--
ER  -