The U.S.A as a Hegemonic Power

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This paper stresses that the United States is an enormously powerful state. The author points out that it is a democratic state, which in all its public utterances claims to support freedom and democracy throughout the world. The paper states that, because, in March 2003, the U.S.A. invaded Iraq in defiance of the United Nations and most of the world, there is no mistaking the perception that the U.S.A. is dominating the world in an entirely undemocratic manner.

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"The United States is an enormously powerful state. It is also a democratic state, and in all its public utterances claims to support freedom and democracy throughout the world. Yet there is no mistaking the perception that in fact the USA is dominating the world in an entirely undemocratic manner. After all, it invaded Iraq in defiance of the United Nations and most of the world, in March 2003."

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