Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
The United States in the early 21st century has been involved in a so-called \u201cforever\u201d war involving military threats, interventions, occupations, counterinsurgencies, and the like. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States engaged in an at least superficially analogous many-decades series of interventions in the Western Hemisphere with the aim of achieving regional hegemony.
This earlier period is the topic of a new book by Sean Mirski, an attorney at Arnold & Porter and a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. The book is called \u201cWe May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus.\u201d Jack Goldsmith sat down with Sean to discuss what he describes as the United States\u2019 \u201cregional rampage of staggering scope and scale\u201d in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the aims and consequences of these military adventures, and the lessons they hold for today, both for U.S. foreign policy and for understanding the aims of rising powers like China.
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