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In 1938, Time publisher Henry Luce coined the term the ‘American century’ to refer to America’s influence over the world in the 20th century. This was done during the beginning of World War II in which Luce urged America to defend democracy in an influential editorial of the ‘Time’. America’s foreign policies still today are based on the idea of spreading democracy in the other less powerful countries. (more…)

The terrorist attacks centred upon the east coast of the United States on the morning of 11 September 2001 altered forever the view that America has of itself within the greater world order. (more…)

The debates between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon in the last days of the 1960 presidential campaign have become both famous (in the American public’s imagination) and influential (in determining the nature of subsequent political campaigns, not only in America but in other western democracies as well). (more…)