Empire

Empire examines the rise of the United States to the status of a global superpower and its impact upon the global political economy. It explores how US power has come to shape the pattern of global politics in the twentieth century.
The book is distinctive in also seeking to understand how global interdependence is beginning to have significant consequences for the lives of Americans. Empire narrates the story of how the United States has come to dominate world politics and how, at the end of the twentieth century, the US is itself affected by and responding to the world it helped construct.
This book will prove invaluable for students of American politics, history, world affairs, and international relations.