The Rise and Fall of Empires
Abstract
KEY POINTS: (1) Participants carefully avoided precisely defining "empire" early in the conference as it was evident that considerable debate was needed on the topic. (2) Empires come into existence from a variety of causes and exhibit somewhat different characteristics. (3) Empires pass from the scene for equally various reasons and do not necessarily collapse or decay since, participants argued, some never existed until after their time had passed. (4) America appears to have stumbled into a condition popularly called empire after the Spanish-American War, but has recently stumbled into a condition of empire of a different kind, again without any particular thought of becoming one. (5) The conferees presented historical approaches/evaluations that avoided an aspect more prominent in the realm of political science - the issue of leadership among members of a community.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA437605
Entities
People
- Douglas V. Johnson Ii
Organizations
- United States Army War College