Let's Talk About Empire

Foreign Policy In Focus asked its senior analysts to weigh in on the future course of American foreign policy. This is the question they responded to: "The enormous challenges facing us — economic crisis, climate crisis, nuclear proliferation — require unprecedented global cooperation. Will President Barack Obama draw down the American empire in order to meet these challenges? Or will he do what he can to maintain empire in a different form?"

Sarah Anderson
E. Ethelbert Miller
Mark Engler
Stephen Zunes
Adil EShamoo
Ian Williams
Christine Ahn
Dan Smith


Sarah Anderson directs the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington and is the co-author of Field Guide to the Global Economy (New Press, 2005).
E. Ethelbert Miller is an award-winning poet, the director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University, and the board chairperson of the Institute for Policy Studies.
Mark Engler is the author of How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy (Nation Books, 2008).Stephen Zunes is a a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco.
Adil E. Shamoo is an Iraqi American and a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Ian Williams's work is available on www.deadlinepundit.blogspot.com.Christine Ahn works with the Global Fund for Women.
Colonel. Daniel Smith, U.S. Army (Ret.) is a retired U.S. Army colonel, and a senior fellow on military affairs at the Friends Committee on National Legislation.
They are all senior analysts at Foreign Policy In Focus.