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Radboud University: North American Studies: transnational america: politics, culture and society

Institution Radboud University
Department Faculty of Arts
Web http://www.ru.nl/masters
Study type Taught

Summary

Engaging the geopolitics and transnational cultures as well as the violence and seductions to come out of America’s history as a global cultural, political, economic, military and technological power. America today is more powerful than any other country or empire in human history. At times its influence on the world is ‘soft,’ by dint of cultural diplomacy, transnational webs of relation and exchange, and the allure of its popular cultures. As a land of opportunity the United States has embraced – and been remade by – the people, cultures, and religions of the world, even as it has seduced large swaths of the world with its ideas, lifestyles and culture. At other moments, however, America’s work in the world is ‘hard’, even vicious: military invasions, the ruthless imposition of neoliberal market regimes, covert destabilizations, and global wars on drugs and terror that regularly violate international conventions on human rights, ethics and justice. Time and again, America has sought to remake the world in its own image, in line with its own interests, by dint of military force, interventions, international organizations, globe-spanning corporations, development aid, torture and boycotts. The Master’s specialization in Transnational America: Politics, Culture and Society takes this paradox as its central dilemma.

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