Post-Cold War unipolarity made US elites willing to openly embrace the word empire.
Evidence
This “neo-Reaganite” policy was called “benevolent global hegemony” because it asserted that what was good for the United States was generally good for the world as well. As an aside, we might note that this was not a radically new idea but rather a continuation of the “benevolent supremacy” that McAlister argues characterized US policy in the post–World War II era. What was new in the late 1990s was the willingness among the adherents of this policy to use the word empire more openly. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 480
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Reinforces Kumar’s own ‘Rise of the racial state and the politics of Islamophobia’ claims about neocon think tanks, and connects to earlier chapter 9 note that only post-Cold War unipolarity let US elites adopt empire language openly.
Related
- Only post-Cold War unipolarity let US elites openly embrace empire language (similarity 0.97)
- The 1990s unipolar moment revived open imperial language in US policy (similarity 0.92)
- Krauthammer’s 1990 essay articulated the unipolar-post-Cold-War doctrine (similarity 0.80)
- Post-Cold War US imperial consensus traded liberal veneer for white nationalism under Trump. (similarity 0.80)
- The US distinguished its postwar dominance from old colonialism as benevolent supremacy (similarity 0.80)
- Post-Cold War US empire rebranded military force as benevolent multicultural intervention (similarity 0.79)
- Liberal hegemonic soft power rhetoric masked imperial ethnocentric racism. (similarity 0.79)
- American exceptionalism repackaged empire because it could not inherit old imperial language (similarity 0.79)
- Neoconservative empire-building ideas were publicly ridiculed in 1992 (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- The 1990s unipolar moment revived open imperial language in US policy
#corroborates(0.98) - Post-unipolar power shifts made US elites willing to speak of empire openly
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