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18 - The imperial state

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2010

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The 1941 declaration of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill known as the Atlantic Charter announced the beginning of a new world order. The mantle of imperial world leadership passed from Britain to the United States with the Charter's recognition that nations had the right to self-governance, as they did not under colonial rule, and that nations would participate on an equal basis in free trade, as they did not under a system of colonial preferences. Most importantly, the new imperial leader, with the help of the old imperial leader, would establish a global order characterized by “freedom from fear and want.” A promising beginning would soon be made against fear with the Allied war effort to defeat fascism and had already been made against want with booming war economies that had ended the Great Depression. Earlier in the year, Roosevelt had justified the Lend-Lease Bill in his Four Freedoms speech by appeal to freedom from fear and want, in conjunction with freedom of speech and worship.

A lot remained to be determined; isolationism was dead, but what would be the mechanism for insuring peace and prosperity in the postwar world? Would this conception of global justice be effective in advancing the interests of U.S. capital, or would it place obstacles in the way of those interests? How has the U.S. state been altered by embodying this conception of global justice?

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The State and Justice
An Essay in Political Theory
, pp. 233 - 245
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1989

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  • The imperial state
  • Milton Fisk
  • Book: The State and Justice
  • Online publication: 06 July 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511625015.024
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  • Milton Fisk
  • Book: The State and Justice
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511625015.024
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  • The imperial state
  • Milton Fisk
  • Book: The State and Justice
  • Online publication: 06 July 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511625015.024
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