The Globalization Of American Power

America wanted to expand their foreign policy to help boost their economy. They felt threatened because not only did they have to compete with countries like Germany and Japan to secure access to Chinese markets. The first foreign policy the U.S. had was the Monroe Doctrine, which closed the Western Hemisphere to further colonization from European countries. This secured the U.S. foreign trade with Central America. The American foreign policy warned European nations to stay away from the Western Hemisphere while the U.S. also competed for trade in the Eastern Hemisphere.

By the year 1901, the United States possessed one of the largest navy’s in the world, a growing empire, and the respect of the world as a growing power. It gained these achievements by being involved in the growing imperialism of this era along with Britain, France, Germany, and Japan. However America did not gain its power spontaneously. During the Gilded Age and prior America established policies and precedents that would lead America into the discussion as a world power. Although the United States expansionism in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries was a continuation of the social and cultural continuation of the past, it was also resulting from the departure from the methods of the past in the government’s pursuit of new economic and political endeavors.

Between 1865 and the 1880’s the United States were very much removed from the entire world. This was an issue that required focus because many other nations, such as Europe and Asia were constantly building an empire so the American’s demanded U.S. expansion. The majority of their focus was on the Western Hemisphere (Barnes & Bowles, The American Story - Perspectives and Encounters from 1877, 2014). The Western Hemisphere was the main focus and it made America what it is today.

The 1890’s was the age of America’s new imperialism. The idea of imperialism resulted from the belief of Manifest Destiny, the idea of expanding America’s frontier from coast to coast was destined by God. The continuation of filling up western land created a closed frontier, pushing America to expand to other places outside of the mainland. The principle of expanding to other areas was to help America become a world power.

It was an age of empire, and by the 1900s Europe’s powers had taken control of more than 10 million square miles and 150 million people. In the closing years of the nineteenth century, foreign policy assumed a new importance for Americans. Political and business leaders have been preoccupied by internal matters and began to look outward in order to advocate a more activist approach to world affairs. Not wanting to be left behind, the United States emerged as a great power exercising imperialism; two of the countries which experienced this exercise was, Hawaii and Cuba.

Next came global imperialism during 1893, which “was simply an extension of the way American had ‘won the West’” (Schultz, 2012, para. 3). Politically, American imperialism can be traced back to the 1870s when the United States began to compete with European powers to “conquer vulnerable resource-rich regions” that would provide “substantial profits and a worldwide network of commercial and military bases” (Schultz, 2012, para. 7). In 1883, the United States began to build upon its military through the replacement of wooden sailing ships with “powerful all-steel, steam-driven battleships, armed with the latest long-range artillery” (Schultz, 2012, para. 19). This also meant that the United States needed naval supply bases to aid the naval fleet in maintaining American territory overseas. As for why America was building a global empire, this was done to support American economic development and to establish the United States as a world power worth reckoning with.” The United States also worked to build a global empire “because many Americans believed the United States was destined to share the benefits of democracy and white civilization with the rest of the world” (Schultz, 2012, para. 90).

At the turn of the twentieth century the United States expanded into new distant places. The change that is most obvious in turn-of-the-century expansion was the addition of territory that was not on the continent of North America. Such a change made the U.S. something it had not been before: an Empire. American imperialism is the military, economic, and ethnic inspiration of the United States with other nations. Such effect often goes hand in hand with extension into foreign terrains, such as the acquisition of Alaska and Hawaii, The Spanish American War, The control of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and the Panama Canal Zone in Columbia; they all ended up as being part of the US and under its control. The reason why the US was expanding: to compete economically

Based on the powerpoints from this week, white Europeans seem to accept widely racial hierarchy and physically distinct groups. Because of this, people that were not the same, they were treated differently. These groups believed they are far superior to others, and they feel it’s their right and other members of society justify it. Financial and political oppression brought about being lowest in the white order at the top.

After the years of the American Civil War, America embarked on a manifest destiny, 2.0. America decided they wanted to expand their territory across the waters. There were many approaches that were suggested by previous presidents, all with the same goal: World Dominance.

The hegemonic principles established and instated by institutional violence indubitably form the very core of the slave system that abuses the slaves and destroys their humanity. It is the weapon "with which the supremacy of white values are affirmed and the aggressiveness which has permeated the victory of these values over the ways of life and of thought of the native" (Fanon 43). Slaves were left to starve and were beaten for minor faults. Slave owners were afraid of their slaves who outnumbered them, they resorted to violence to force their slaves into submission. Violence has usually guided the hegemonic power when destroying the slaves' lives, internally and externally, thereof slaves' violent resistance has been mainly targeted to the

A remarkable example of such concept was historically given by the United States: back in 1898, the Founding Fathers did not aim to make of US a global hegemony, but they rather focused their expansion within the western hemisphere.

Globalization grew at an alarming pace after the fall of the Soviet Union when the USA was left in a position of dominance, allowing them to invest in “economic prosperity” in several nations. With the introduction of deregulated global free trade, the shift to capitalism with an individualist mentality, and a technological revolution that transformed our social spaces and boundaries, a “farther, faster, cheaper, deeper” (Antonio, p. 70) mindset now guided decisions about the environment, culture, economy, political system, and most importantly, the well-being of global citizens. America currently maintains the hegemony and the alliances

In these two article globalization and the increase of globalism is described in two very different ways. Waltz arguing from a realist’s perspective; that the politics of the state is ultimately affected within globalization. R.O.keohane and J.S.Nye Jr express a liberal opinion, arguing the many different factors that affect the increase in globalism.

By the closing years of the 19th century The United States of America Stood before the world as a divided nation in the ruins of a deadly civil war. After years of tragedy and hardship it was time for the US to turn a new leaf and start a new chapter of prosperity. To accomplish such, America’s greatest minds were tasked to construct a fair so magnificent, it would not only usher in a new age of American civilization but establish the foundation of the urban world. Although the 1893 Columbian Exposition barely turned for a profit, finance is one of the myriad of factors in determining whether the Fair truly was the transitional event sparking the rise of a global superpower. Aspects such as economic, political and social impacts are key factors in determining overall influence. In summary, the 1893 Columbian Exposition was a watershed event in US history to a great extent due to its impacts on the social and political scale despite its economic shortcomings.

Britain’s vote to exit the European Union, Opposition by the U.S. to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and the undergoing renegotiations of the North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are just a few examples of the increase in anti-trade sentiments in recent years. Protectionist sentiments undermine the broader economic benefits of international trade and create uncertainty among trading partners. Trade liberalization is a key component of the world economic agenda required for sustained reduction of global food insecurity, poverty, and inequality. Trade boosts productivity, spurs innovation, lowers prices, and increases access to imports. For example, Canada’s productivity is estimated to have risen by 13.6% as a result of free