POSC 389: "Empire of Liberty": The Politics of US Colonialism Syllabus UPDATED Winter 2021 (original) (raw)

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The United States is a democracy. The United States is an empire. How can both be true? Democracy implies government by consent and popular will; empire means the use of conquest and coercion to subordinate people to tyrannical (even genocidal) rule and power.