Keywords
United States
political realism
national interest
national security
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Abstract
This article questions the common idea that when the United States removed itself historically and geographically from the reason of state of European absolutism, it removed itself from the totalitarian potential of the state. The fact that today we speak of an American state response to terrorist aggression ignores the existence of a state before independence which manifested itself in the confrontation with England, France and the European powers. The "America" of the Federalists and the Republicans, more an extension of the empire than a colony in the strict sense, replaces the reason of state, already in crisis in Europe, with the profit logic and the expansion of both national and international interests, that now is transfigured into national security, whose global magnitude surpasses any previous reason of state.Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
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