imperial power Archives - Michael Ignatieff https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/tag/imperial-power/ Professor, writer, politician Wed, 13 Oct 2021 14:11:10 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/michaelignatieff.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-Michael-Ignatieff-website-icon-512x512px.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 imperial power Archives - Michael Ignatieff https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/tag/imperial-power/ 32 32 217957751 American Empire: The Burden https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/2003/american-empire-the-burden/ Sun, 05 Jan 2003 09:00:00 +0000 https://wp19.infinhost.net/?p=1204 The age of empire ought to have been succeeded by an age of independent, equal and self-governing nation-states. But that has not come to pass. America has inherited a world scarred not just by the failures of empires past but also by the failure of nationalist movements to create and secure free states—and now, suddenly, by the desire of Islamists to build theocratic tyrannies on the ruins of failed nationalist dreams.

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