Violent belongings and the question of empire today presidential address to the American Studies Association, October 17, 2003

American Quarterly

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-18

  Kaplan, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1353/aq.2004.0010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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1. Toni Morrison, Beloved (New York: Knopf, 1987), 190
2. For recent books on the subject in addition to those cited below, see Andrew Bacevich, American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002)
3. Patrick J. Buchanan, A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1999/2002)
4. Chalmers Johnson, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (New York: Holt, 2000)
5. John Newhouse, Imperial America: The Bush Assault on the World Order (New York: Knopf, 2003)
6. Joseph S. Nye, The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)
7. See for example, Charles A. Kupchan, The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century (New York: Knopf, 2002)
8. Michael Mann, Incoherent Empire (London: Verso, 2003)
9. Emmanuel Todd, After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003)
10. Immanuel Wallerstein, The Decline of American Power (New York: New Press, 2003)
11. Niall Ferguson, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (New York: Basic Books, 2002), 370
12. Quoted in Emily Eakin, "All Roads Lead to D.C.," New York Times, Week in Review, March 31, 2002
13. Niall Ferguson, "The 'E' Word," Wall Street Journal, June 6, 2003
14. Alan Murray, "Political Capital: Manifesto Warns of Dangers Associated with an Empire," Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2003
15. J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians (New York: Penguin, 1982), 31
16. See, for example, Sebastian Mallaby, "The Reluctant Imperialist: Terrorism, Failed States, and the Case for American Empire," Foreign Affairs 81 (March-April 2002)
17. Robert D. Kaplan, "Supremacy by Stealth: Ten Rules for Managing the World," Atlantic Monthly, July-August 2003, 68-69
18. Michael Ignatieff, "The American Empire: The Burden," New York Times Magazine, January 5, 2003, 22
19. Pierre Hassner, The United States: The Empire of Force or the Force of Empire, Chaillot Papers, no. 54 (Paris: Institute for Security Studies, European Union, 2002), 46. Available at http://www.iss-eu.org/chaillot/chai54e.pdf
20. Max Boot, The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power (New York: Basic Books, 2002), 341-42
21. U.S. intervention in the Philippines has become a model for others as well. See Kaplan's "Rule No. 7: Remember the Philippines," in "Supremacy by Stealth," 80
22. Ignatieff, "American Empire." The term soft power was popularized by Nye
23. National Security Council, "The National Security Strategy of the U.S.A.," September 2002, The White House, http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/ nss.html
24. W. E. B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 (1897), in Writings, ed. Nathan Huggins (New York: Library of America, 1986), 74
25. W. E. B. Du Bois, Dusk of Dawn: An Essay toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1940; repr., New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1994), 222
26. Paul W. Cobb Jr., deputy general counsel at the Department of Defense, quoted in Eviatar, "Foreigners' Rights," 7
27. Michael Ratner, "The War on Terrorism: The Guantánamo Prisoners, Military Commissions, and Torture," Center for Constitutional Rights. Available at http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/viewpoints/viewpoint.asp?ObjID= oCjCc05Q9n&Content= 142
28. Jane Fritsch, "Guantänamo Detainees Lingering in Legal Limbo," Chicago Tribune, October 12, 2003
29. Eric Schmitt and Thorn Shanker, "Fear of Sabotage by Mistranslation in Guantänamo," New York Times, October 7, 2003