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Scholarship in the Shadow of Empire (2004 Presidential Address)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Laurie A. Brand
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As a colleague of mine has recently written, a term that was slanderous a mere decade ago—empire—has now become a cliché in discussing the United States. Indeed,

what word but ‘empire’ describes the awesome thing that America is becoming? It is the only nation that polices the world through five global military commands; maintains more than a million men and women at arms on four continents; deploys carrier battle groups on watch in every ocean; guarantees the survival of countries from Israel to South Korea; drives the wheels of global trade and commerce...

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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , June 2005 , pp. 3 - 18
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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 2005

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