A Critical Look at the United States History and Politics

Abstract

The article is a review of the collective monograph “America Against Everyone. Geopolitics, Statehood and the Global Role of the United States: History and Modernity” (Moscow: Sodruzhestvo kul’tur Publ., 2023. 588 p.). The work under review is devoted to a critical rethinking of US history from the declaration of independence to the first quarter of the 21st century. The authors of the monograph, based on research literature and historical sources, revealed the genesis of imperialist ideas in the United States, deeply analyzed the main stages of the development of American statehood from the 18th century to the present day, and gave a vivid description of the spread of US hegemony in various regions of the world in the 19th century, and on a global scale — from the beginning of modern times to the present day. The collective monograph provides a successful and convincing analysis of the essence of the American state. The final chapters show the crisis of socio-political and socio-economic relations in the United States at the present stage. The book under review also has some shortcomings; for example, it could have used more diverse types of sources; the various scientific schools studying US history are not sufficiently shown. However, all this does not detract from the merits of the book “America Against Everyone” and the general conclusion is clear — the critical view of the authors of the monograph on American history geopolitics, statehood and the desire for globalism is completely justified.

Keywords:

USA, hegemony, American statehood, geopolitics, globalism, history, Russian-American relations, critical view, scientific schools, historical literature, historical sources