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Lasch’s Punctilios Reviews by Jeff Greenfield, Art Happens Christopher Hitchens, Steven Bach, Harry Shearer, Terry Teachout, James 83 THE PERIODICAL OBSERVER Pinkerton, and others Drawing a Bead on Terrorism Replacement Parts 128 FROM THE CENTER cover: The Spirit of Liberty (1986), by T. F. Chen, courtesy of the T. F. Chen Cultural Center, New York. Design by David Herbick. The views expressed herein are not necessarily those of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. USPS 346-670 | Volume XXVI, Number 3 | Printed in the U.S.A. Editor’s Comment n American empire? Our cover story for this issue is inspired not so much by a settled view of the question as by a conviction Athat the debate between “multilateralists” and “unilateralists” long ago stopped being very illuminating. September 11 showed that there aren’t many pure multilateralists when New York is in flames, and I haven’t encountered too many unilateralists who want to pull the plug on, say, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Perhaps America is an empire. It may be merely a great power of unusual strength. Or it may be only first among equals, the powerful leader of a mighty coalition. These alternatives hardly exhaust the possibilities. The point is that how the United States sees itself ought to influence how it acts in different situations. That’s why we asked five thinkers to take up the question of empire from their various perspectives. The cover story owes a particular intellectual debt to one of those contribu- tors, Andrew J. Bacevich, whose provocative writings in the WQ and else- where over the past few years have often dealt with the implications of what he sees as America’s imperial role in the world. Though he is no partisan of empire, Bacevich believes that the United States has almost unwittingly become the new Rome, and he argues that Americans must confront this fact of their national existence in molding U.S. military and diplomatic policies. Bacevich has not been alone in thinking about empire, but he has a unique perspective, shaped in part by a background that includes a 23-year career in the U.S. Army and a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University. This fall, Har- vard University Press will publish his new book, American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy, which is sure to reward readers and stir wide debate. Congratulations, too, to editorial adviser and “empire” contributor Martin Walker on the publication of his novel, The Caves of Périgord. Editor: Steven Lagerfeld The Wilson Quarterly (ISSN-0363-3276) is published in Managing Editor: James H. Carman January (Winter), April (Spring), July (Summer), and October Senior Editors: Robert K. 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