period, and on the economic effects of empire. …

range of foreign policy strategies in their region. Three ideal-typical regional strategies are identified: empire, hegemony …

. Costs derive from the cost of civil war and lost benefit of Empire membership. When expected net benefits are positive for … both secessionists and the Empire civil war ensues, otherwise it is settled or never begins in the first place. The novelty …

abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involvement in the empire business began, how American foreign policy became … collapse might open the empire trap once more. With shrewd and timely analysis, this book considers American patterns of …

Recent scholarship regarding the idea of a U.S. Empire has raised serious questions as to the feasibility and … desirability of imperial ambitions. This paper traces the debate over the net-benefit of empire back to the Classical economists …. Adam Smith argued that the British Empire was a net cost while John Stuart Mill concluded the same empire was a net benefit …