ABSTRACT
Woodrow Wilson, an early advocate of imperialism, wanted a world in which the community of power would eventually overshadow the balance of power. Although the Bush administration's foreign policy is a mix of different ideologies, it has clearly been influenced by this new imperialism. By the 1890s, a powerful lobby led by Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was calling for an "expansionist" foreign policy. The new American imperialists, who view the world as a hierarchy governed by military power, would argue that the development of such blocs is inevitable unless the United States actively discourages its allies as well as rogue states from competing against it. The international institutions the United States built helped to win the Cold War against the Soviet Union, which under Stalin became heir to czarist Russia's imperial ambitions. The British, French, Germans, Italians, and Dutch abandoned their empires and subordinated their national ambitions to a new, supranational organization, the European Union.
