Viewpoints
Opinion

Don’t Call It an American Empire

Even as Americans and our allies adopt some of the practical arrangements of empire, we should avoid calling these imperial or unipolar.
Don’t Call It an American Empire
Bumble Dee/Shutterstock
|Updated:
0:00
Commentary

The whiff of empire is in the air.

Anders Corr
Anders Corr
Author
Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
twitter
Related Topics