America’s Pursuit of Empire. Washington’s Post-Cold War Hegemonic Project
Address to the International Conference on the European/Russian Crisis Created by Washington, Delphi, June 20-21, 2015
DR. PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: The United States has pursued empire since
early in its history, but it was the Soviet collapse in 1991 that
enabled Washington to see the entire world as its oyster.
The
collapse of the Soviet Union resulted in the rise of the
neoconservatives to power and influence in the US government. The
neoconservatives have interpreted the Soviet collapse as History’s
choice of “American democratic capitalism” as the New World Order.
Chosen by History as the exceptional
and indispensable country, Washington claims the right and the
responsibility to impose its hegemony on the world. Neoconservatives
regard their agenda to be too important to be constrained by domestic
and international law or by the interests of other countries. Indeed, as
the Unipower, Washington is required by the neoconservative doctrine to
prevent the rise of other countries that could constrain American
power.
