American Empire Rd. log 1

I have settled on American Empire: Globabl Leader or Rogue Power, by Jim Garrison. The central theme of this book is America has transitioned from Republic to Empire. Garrison explores why America has became the world's most powerful nation and what responcibilities come with it. He argues that todays world is a global system. This has happened because leaps in technology and communication and because of a globalized economy. Garrison claims that America will be the world's last empire. This is true he explains because in a globilzed system there is no need for Empires. Instead a global goverment like the UN will settle gloabal affairs and disputes. The United States now will either provide the leadership that we showed the world after world war I and II or we will be remembered as coming a a trajec end. Either way we are the only onces that can decide our outome and the future of the world according to Garrioson.