{"product_id":"the-empire-has-no-clothes-us-foreign-policy-exposed-9781598130218","title":"The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed","description":"\u003cb\u003eMost Americans don't think of their government as an empire, but in fact the United States has been steadily expanding its control of overseas territories since the turn of the twentieth century. Now, through political intimidation and over 700 military bases worldwide, the U.S. holds sway over an area that dwarfs the great empires of world history.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Empire Has No Clothes\u003c\/i\u003e, Ivan Eland, a leading expert on U.S. defense policy and national security, examines American military interventions around the world from the Spanish-American War to the invasion of Iraq. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEland shows that the concept of empire is wholly contrary to the principles of both liberals and conservatives and that it makes a mockery of the Founding Fathers' vision for a free republic. Eland also warns that in recent years, \"blowback\" and the enormous expansion of domestic federal power resulting from this overextended empire have begun to threaten the American homeland itself and curtail the very liberties these interventions were supposed to protect. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublic debate of the United States' role in the world has finally begun in earnest, and Ivan Eland delivers a penetrating argument in this landmark book, exposing the imperial motives behind interventionist U.S. policy, questioning the historical assumptions on which it is based and advocating a return to the Founding Fathers' vision of military restraint overseas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIvan Eland\u003c\/b\u003e is senior fellow and director of the Center on Peace \u0026amp; Liberty at The Independent Institute.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHis articles have appeared in such publications as the \u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times, Newsday\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e, and he has appeared on the BBC, CNN, Radio Free Europe, NPR's \u003ci\u003eTalk of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ethe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWorld News Tonight\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Efficacy of Economic Sanctions as a Foreign Policy Tool.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Independent Institute","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51589741936914,"sku":"9781598130218","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d9548a66-8cc4-4669-afc5-753bc750a495.jpg?v=1756804331","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-empire-has-no-clothes-us-foreign-policy-exposed-9781598130218","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}