LaVar Hosting Jeopardy July 26-30 Stan Account 👁

If you are invested in the United States continuing to exist in some form that is institutionally continuous, and yet you recognize the horrors of America's history of imperialism, how do you reimagine American foreign policy? Who is in this space?

Who is doing anti-imperialist work while imagining something less catastrophic and "millions of people probably die" than somehow America ceasing to exist as a state?

Whenever I imagine social justice, I assume eventually the institutions of the state will have to be organized around anti-hegemonic principles. But short of an actual "one-world government," how can international cooperation be structured around anti-hegemonic principles?

Furthermore, does "peace" (i.e., the restriction of violence to approved sectors among approved actors) require (a) hegemonic power(s)? How do you avoid both the global hegemony of a state that abuses its power to control smaller states...

AND avoid the European phenomenon of centuries of war between relatively equally-matched regional powers?

Again, it is unclear how to get there politically, but it is fairly simple to imagine an America within my lifetime, institutionally continuous with America as it exists today, where presently-oppressed groups live decent lives.