'If there’s any country that dominated the world by force, it’s the U.S.!' stephenwertheim talks new book Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy ⤵️
also quietly leaves the reader with an important question: given the all-encompassing, violent nature of U.S. global leadership, have we become the very thing we were trying to stop in the first place?What motivated you to start researching this topic? You’re a historian, but you’re also the co-founder of the Quincy Institute — did setting up a think tank influence you?I came to realize in the course of doing graduate studies that scholars had not squarely asked the question of how the U.S.
The United States in [this historical] view stood on reason and rule, not forcing whims, and that’s why most Americans were critical of the British empire, for example. What I think I pinpoint in my book is how the notion of American exceptionalism became bound up in the role of the armed enforcer of the world.
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