Introduction / by John C. Davenport -- Is America an imperial power? / by Bruce Cumings -- Neither new nor nefarious : the liberal empire strikes back / by Max Boot -- Imperial amnesia / by John B. Judis -- The compulsive empire / by Robert Jervis -- America and the ambivalence of power / by G. John Ikenberry -- The empire's new frontiers / by Michael T. Klare -- America's imperial dilemma / by Dimitri K. Simes -- What to do with American primacy / by Richard N. Haass -- The counsel of geopolitics / by Parag Khanna -- U.S. power and strategy after Iraq / by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. -- The reluctant imperialist : terrorism, failed states, and the case for America empire / by Sebastian Mallaby -- The anti-American century? / by Ivan Krastev.