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07 Jul 2008 09:34 am

Empire Or Hegemony?

It's a tangled distinction but this reader makes an interesting point:

What distinguishes American hegemony from Empire is that we have never forced a sovereign government to give our army the right to arrest its nation's citizens; a distinction that we are very close to breaking in Iraq.

Would it be unprecedented?

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