American Empire
Global dominance project
American Empire refers to the United States' global dominance through military bases, economic influence, and cultural reach—though the term is contested.
Critics use it to highlight American interventionism and hegemony: The American Empire has military installations in over seventy countries.
Defenders of U.S. policy reject the imperial framing, preferring terms like "global leadership." The phrase appears in both scholarly analysis and political criticism, often implying that American power operates like historical empires despite lacking formal colonies.
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
- protectorateGuarded semi-autonomous territory
- overseas territoriesLands governed by distant nations
- sphere of influenceZone of dominant authority
- territorial expansionIncreasing a state's domain
naval power · Guantanamo Bay · military bases · interventionism · regime change · neocolonialism · geopolitical strategy · banana republics · dollar diplomacy · sovereignty · yellow journalism · USS Maine · San Juan Hill · Theodore Roosevelt · Puerto Rico · U.S. Virgin Islands · Guam · gunboat diplomacy
American Empireisolationism
Policy avoiding foreign alliances
non-interventionism · America First · anti-imperialism · Monroe Doctrine · neutrality
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Romanov-ruled Eurasian state
British Empire · Eastern Bloc · Ottoman Empire · Roman Empire · Third Reich
American Empirenational sovereignty
State's ultimate governing power
Westphalian system · self-determination · anarchism · decolonization · anti-colonial movements
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