Discussion led by Dr. Daniel M. Green.
This talk will be a quick survey of the past 200 years, to discuss
first what the US did to become a great power in the nineteenth century
and, second, what it did to exert its power, influence and export its
values to shape the international system in the twentieth century, up to
today. The US impact has been world-transforming since 1917, but the
challenge it has faced in the last few years is a very new one - to
grapple with a global system not seen before in history, with many great
powers, each with a very different cultural and historical background.
Daniel M. Green
is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations
at the University of Delaware. He specializes in and teaches on
international relations theory and history, current affairs, and the
Middle East. A former Chair of the Historical International Relations
(HIST) Section of the International Studies Association, he is currently
Convener of the Nineteenth Century Working Group of HIST. He has
published in many journals and collections and most recently edited
Guide to the English School in International Studies (with Cornelia
Navari, Wiley Blackwell 2014) and The Two Worlds of Nineteenth Century
International Relations: The Bifurcated Century (Routledge 2018). His
current book project is entitled Order Projects and Resistance in the
Global Political System: A Framework for International Relations
History.