U.S. Empire Building As A Failing Project: Is American Supremacy Sustainableand Durable?

Authors : Ömer Kurtbağ

Pages : 46-78

Doi:10.1501/Intrel_0000000143

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Publication Date : 2007-05-01

Article Type : Research

Abstract :Although it had no strong wish to be active and adventurous in foreign affairs, the Clinton government vvas quite successful in reducing the financial deficit and so restoring US economic dominance at the expense of Japan and Germany, both of vvhich vvere recently regarded as the potential rivals to the US povver. Hovvever, these much debated Japanese and, to a less degree, German challenges to US povver have been undercut by their poor economic performances during the first decade of post-Cold War era and more importantly, by their unvvillingness to compete militarily and politically vvith Washington under the nevv, uncertain conditions of vvorld order.6 Rather than balance the US, both countries have been determined to maintain the regular pattern of engagement that dominated the Cold War
Keywords : U.S. Empire Building, American Supremacy, vvorld order