Les fondements structurels et moraux de l'hégémonisme américain
The sometimes disconcerting good faith with which US leaders express their will to intervene in world affairs so as to dominate the rest of the planet can only be explained in relation to the peculiar origins of the United States and mentality characteristic of dominant elites. The idea that the Uni...
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| Summary: | The sometimes disconcerting good faith with which US leaders express their will to intervene in world affairs so as to dominate the rest of the planet can only be explained in relation to the peculiar origins of the United States and mentality characteristic of dominant elites. The idea that the United States has a "manifest destiny", a veritable "mission" to bring democracy and civilization to the entire world cannot be considered only as cynical propaganda. It is at once rooted in the American national experience and it is typical of the need, proper to all ruling groups, to believe in their own moral rectitude. |
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