5.5. The American Hegemonic cycle and system wide crisis

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America’s role in the modern world system can, as the historian William Appleman Williams suggested long ago, be interpreted as a continuous process of construction of empire. Going back to the origins, William Appleman Williams argued that the United States’ vigorous expansionism throughout the 19th and 20th centuries was the “continuation and maturation of an attitude held by the Revolutionary generation […] Americans thought of themselves as an empire at the very outset of their national e...

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