CONTENTS

List of Maps

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

PART I THE TERRITORIAL EMPIRE

ONE Continental Expansion

TWO Mexico and Central America

THREE Africa and the Pacific

FOUR The Caribbean

PART II THE SEMIGLOBAL EMPIRE

FIVE Institutions

SIX Nonstate Actors

SEVEN The Empire in Action

EIGHT The Unipolar Moment

PART III THE EMPIRE IN RETREAT

NINE Anti-Imperialism in the United States

TEN The US Economy

ELEVEN The Decline of Leadership

TWELVE Hegemony under Threat

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index