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For others, the demise of the political system meant the end not merely of the only historical narrative they knew, but of an empire and a sense of national identity as well.
How much longer can we ignore the fact that, in raising the bogeyman of “Chechen terrorism,” the Russian government is suppressing the liberties gained when the Soviet empire collapsed?
So did the Incas as they built their huge Andean empire in the century before the Spanish arrived.
Instead of an expansionist Russian empire confronting Imperial Britain, it is now a China hungry for land, water, and raw materials that is flexing its muscles, encroaching on Himalayan redoubts and directly challenging India.
But Putin’s recent address to Russia’s Federal Assembly was more a reflection of his resentment of Russia’s geopolitical marginalization than a battle cry from a rising empire.
Three decades ago, the radical left used the term "American empire" as an epithet.
In many ways, the metaphor of empire is seductive.
But it is a mistake to confuse primacy with empire.
The US is certainly not an empire in the way we think of the European empires of the 19th and 20th centuries, because the core feature of that imperialism was political power.
On the top chessboard, military power is largely unipolar, but on the economic board, the US is not a hegemon or an empire, and it must bargain as an equal when, for example, Europe acts in a unified way.
On the bottom chessboard of transnational relations, power is chaotically dispersed, and it makes no sense to use traditional terms such as unipolarity, hegemony, or American empire.
So to describe America as an empire fails to capture the true nature of the foreign policy challenges that America faces.
Those who promote the idea of an American empire also misunderstand the underlying nature of American public opinion and institutions.
America was briefly tempted into real imperialism when it emerged as a world power a century ago, but the interlude of formal empire did not last long.
American empire is not constrained by economics: the US devoted a much higher percentage of its GDP to military spending during the Cold War than it does today.
Indeed, opinion polls in America show little popular taste for empire and continuing support for multilateralism and using the UN.
In fact, the problem of creating an American empire might better be termed imperial underreach.
So the US should avoid the misleading metaphor of empire as a guide to its foreign policy.
Bolivia’s Morales also has managed to impose a similar Assembly, though with uncertain results, and Correa is wielding the threat of constitutional change against “the traditional parties, the native oligarchies, and the empire” – the common enemies of all three presidents.
The Iraq war proves this: a new American empire is asserting itself.
NEW YORK – Twenty years ago, when the Berlin Wall was breached and the Soviet empire was collapsing, only die-hard believers in a communist utopia felt unhappy.
The medieval system that preceded it, based on a universal church and empire, perished during the Reformation.
The colonial powers that filled the vacuum left by the declining empire had their own militaries, and therefore did not need local forces to govern.
The Soviet Union and its empire quietly disappeared, and with them the Cold War international order.
It is simply not true that Russia willingly gave up its empire to join the democratic West, only to be rebuffed by it.
The consequences were most profound in what were the countries of the Soviet empire, but they extended to other regions as well.
Across the former Soviet empire the state remains far too intrusive to allow the economy to flourish.
The open societies of the West did not feel a strong urge to promote open societies in the former Soviet empire.
To this day, some of India’s legendary entrepreneurs are believed to have built an empire simply by mastering the minutiae of India’s tariff and tax codes, and then manipulating them brazenly to their advantage.
The vast Soviet empire exited the historical stage without a single shot being fired.
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