ABSTRACT This essay considers the career and mythology of Arnold Schwarzenegger – in film and political culture – within, and after, the “American Century.” Transatlantic adaptation (and the ironies thereof) is a useful lens for the Central European immigrant who would embody the international cliché of the American Dream. Among his filmography’s adaptations are fantasies with vaguely “European” settings (Conan the Barbarian) and sci-fi with a Martian setting (Total Recall). Adaptation illuminates Schwarzeneggerology in broader senses, too. Arriving in California in 1968, he could float between, or rather straddle, the counterculture and the Nixonian reaction to it. In the 1980s and 90s, at the action film’s apex, he navigated a mass culture at once “American” and globalizing. As Republican governor of California, he embraced neoliberal economics, itself an ideological descendant from Schwarzenegger’s own Austria. Through all these currents, he represented (often in winking self-parody) a “European” Übermensch that had adapted to “American” humor.

Abstract: Nearly three decades have passed since the historian Mike Wallace published Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, cowritten with the late Edwin G. Burrows, to much renown. A second volume, Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (written by Wallace alone), followed in 2017. With the publication of the third and final installment in this panoramic history, Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945, it is possible both to view the project as a whole and to look afresh at one of the most transformative eras in the history of New York, the United States, and the world.

Lacy K. Ford. <i>Understanding the American South: Slavery, Race, Identity, and the American Century</i>

Understanding the American South: Slavery, Race, Identity, and the American Century by Lacy K. Ford (review)

Utopianism after the American Century

This article provides a detailed analysis of Henry Luce's influential 1941 essay, "The American Century." Based on an intensive scrutiny of the text and its historical context, this article contends that "The American Century" is not one monolithic text, but two. On one hand, it calls for a multilateral world order based on American principles, with values such as democracy, human rights, and international cooperation. On the other hand, it sketches a path for American global dominance, based on cultural, economic, and political suasion, and hence an "empire by invitation." This paper will first examine the dominant isolationist attitude of American society before the essay’s publication. It will then analyze with particular scrutiny the dualism of multilateralism and hegemony in the text itself. Lastly, it will look at the essay’s formidable political influence in the post-World War II period and its enduring legacy in political conversation. It is this inherent ambivalence, the paper argues, that has allowed the concept of the “American Century” to be deployed by succeeding U.S. policymakers and to continuously shape the nation’s sense of itself relative to the world.

Designing the American Century. The Public Landscapes of Clarke and Rapuano, 1915 to 1965

It is a great pleasure, dear Charlie, to do this interview on such a relevant issue.Could you, please, begin by talking about your education and intellectual trajectory?Thank you, Monica, for taking an interest in our work (Charlie Thame and Jana Chin) and for offering us a chance to discuss it with your readers!My main interest has long been political philosophy.I discovered anarchism and classical liberalism as a teenager, the first through punk music, the second the school library (they had Mill but no Kropotkin!).I was lucky enough to get the chance to pursue this at university, where I was introduced to Hegel in the first year of my bachelor's degree and Marx in the second.I found Marx interesting, but Hegel quickly became my real passion; I strongly rejected Fukuyama's liberal reading of him and the association of these ideas with the neo-conservative and imperialist "Project for the New American Century".It was obvious to me that the second Iraq War was essentially a war for oil, but there was also a normative aspect that I was interested in exploring.I spent most of my undergraduate and postgraduate studies exploring ideas of freedom, liberation, and emancipation in classical political philosophy and international theory, including my PhD 1 , but this was always closer to Hegel's idealism than Marx's materialism.That changed when I moved to the Thailand-Myanmar border in 2011 in the final year of my PhD.Since the 1980s the border town of Mae Sot

Abstract: This article uses the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama as a case study to address an important question: Why do so many Asian Americans hold the United States in high regard despite its long record of anti-Asian racism and violence? By analyzing Fukuyama’s writings about Japan, China, and Asian Americans published in the aftermaths of the Vietnam War, the Cold War, the War on Terror, and the COVID-19 pandemic, this article positions him as not only an opponent of those who predict the coming “Asian Century” but also a proponent of the “American Century.” Even though Fukuyama’s worldview clashes with that of Asian American studies scholars, the article raises the possibility that his ideas might resonate with a sizable portion of the Asian American population.

The Asian American Century

Un-American Dreams: Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Disimagined Community, and Bad Hope in the American Century By J. Jesse Ramírez

International audience

<i>North of America: Canadians and the American Century, 1945–60</i>. Edited by Asa McKercher and Michael D. Stevenson

Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century

Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century By Brent Cebul

Every Citizen a Statesman: The Dream of a Democratic Foreign Policy in the American Century

Book Review: North of America: Canadians and the American Century, 1945–60

Cold Peace: Avoiding the new Cold War, A life in the American century

Benn Steil, The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century

Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century by Brent Cebul (review)