The Cold War is over, the Great Game is done, and the US stands alone as the world’s only remaining superpower. But to what end? And at what cost?
Nowhere are these questions more pressing or more immediate than in the Middle East, where the US' shifting roles as peace-broker or war-maker, naive do-gooder or diplomatic giant have bedevilled generations of American presidents.
Empire asks how the US can, or whether it even should, continue to balance these many competing equations.
