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.