BIG SAM IN WORLD AFFAIR

AN INTERROGATION OF THE UNITED STATES’ INVOLVEMENT IN (ANTI) IMPERIAL VENTURE

Abstract

Before the Second World War, the United States was an ardent advocate of nonintervention. However, after the Cold War, the United States, in a new world order, did not believe that supposedly buried foes would ever challenge it until 9/11 acted as a wake-up call. Since then, the United States has stopped many hegemons from dominating other smaller nations. In an attempt to investigate whether the US is an imperialist or an anti-imperialist power, it became clear that the paradox of the situation is that in defending the helpless, politically or otherwise, it has ostensibly entangled itself in the same aura it had been fighting against. The paper then concludes that since the US, like every other capitalist, aims to engage in free trade and spread liberty and freedom to the world while respecting other nation’s laws and ideas, giving conditions that negate the recipients’ beliefs, ideas, and norm will only derail the US
altruistic moves to be imperial and attract her uncommon foes outside and even within especially the teeming millennials.