Re: [xmca] 'Summer reading' continued: "Are we Rome?"

Or, according to Geir Lundestad, "empire by invitation":

"... if [the] American expansion created what we could call an American empire,
this was to a large extent an empire by invitation. Unlike the Soviet Union,
which frequently had to rely on force to further its interests, the United
States possessed an arsenal of diverse instruments. In fact, the United States
was often invited to play a more active role."

( http://jpr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/3/263 )

On 2007-07-26, at 08:25, Leif Strandberg wrote:
> E
>
> I think we are doing what we can to be a part of Rome ("Legtimate
> peripheral participation" - see Swedish and Norwegian soliders in the
> ISAF forces in Afghanistan)
>
> I am waitng for a New Martin Luther
>
> Leif
> 2007-07-25 kl. 13.46 skrev Eirik Knutsson:
>
>> Leif, if America is Rome: who are we (Europeans) then? "Athenians"...
>> now
>> conquered by Rome... (?)
>>
>> E.
>>
>>
>> On 2007-07-25, at 13:27, Leif Strandberg wrote:
>>> No, but I have heard about it,
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> I listened to a radio programme the other day where the reporter
>>> reminded me that Rome lasted for 800 years
>>>
>>> :-(
>>>
>>> Leif
>>> Sweden
>>> 2007-07-25 kl. 12.13 skrev Eirik Knutsson:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Has anybody out there read Cullen Murphy's "Are we Rome?" (Houghton
>>>> Mifflin,
>>>> 2007), in which contemporary Washington is compared with ancient
>>>> Rome?
>>>>
>>>> E.
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