David Edward Tabachnick is a professor in the Department of Political Science, Philosophy and Economics at Nipissing University. Toivo Koivukoski is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Nipissing University.

• Preface David Edward Tabachnick and Toivo KoivukoskiIn the Mirror of Antiquity: The Problem of American Empire David C. HendricksonDemocracy and Empire: The Case of Athens Laurie M. Johnson BagbyEmpire by Invitation of Domination? The Difference between Hemonia and Arkhe / David Edward TabachnickThe Freedom to Rule: Athenian Imperialism and Democratic Masculinity Ryan K. Balot Liberty and Empire, with the Benefit of Limited Hindsight - or What Herodotus of Halicarnassus Saw Clifford OrwinEmpire and the Eclipse of Politics Leah BradshawImperial Compulsions Toivo KoivukoskiRome and the Hellenistic World: Masculinity and Militarism, Monarchy and Republic Arthur M. EcksteinImperial Power in the Roman Republic Susan Mattern-ParkesThe Rise of Global Power and the Music of the Spheres: Philosophy and History in Cicero's De Re Publica Geoffrey KellowMachiavelli's Model of a Liberal Empire: The Evolution of Rome Waller R. NewellPost-9/11 Evocations of Empire in Light of Eric Voegelin's Political Science John von HeykingAthens as Hamlet: The Irresolute Empire Barry Strauss

By reaching back to the imperial histories of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, this fascinating collection explores the passages that global powers traverse as they rise and fall. - G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs

David Edward Tabachnick is a professor in the Department of Political Science, Philosophy and Economics at Nipissing University. Toivo Koivukoski is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Nipissing University.

• Preface David Edward Tabachnick and Toivo KoivukoskiIn the Mirror of Antiquity: The Problem of American Empire David C. HendricksonDemocracy and Empire: The Case of Athens Laurie M. Johnson BagbyEmpire by Invitation of Domination? The Difference between Hemonia and Arkhe / David Edward TabachnickThe Freedom to Rule: Athenian Imperialism and Democratic Masculinity Ryan K. Balot Liberty and Empire, with the Benefit of Limited Hindsight - or What Herodotus of Halicarnassus Saw Clifford OrwinEmpire and the Eclipse of Politics Leah BradshawImperial Compulsions Toivo KoivukoskiRome and the Hellenistic World: Masculinity and Militarism, Monarchy and Republic Arthur M. EcksteinImperial Power in the Roman Republic Susan Mattern-ParkesThe Rise of Global Power and the Music of the Spheres: Philosophy and History in Cicero's De Re Publica Geoffrey KellowMachiavelli's Model of a Liberal Empire: The Evolution of Rome Waller R. NewellPost-9/11 Evocations of Empire in Light of Eric Voegelin's Political Science John von HeykingAthens as Hamlet: The Irresolute Empire Barry Strauss

By reaching back to the imperial histories of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, this fascinating collection explores the passages that global powers traverse as they rise and fall. - G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs

David Edward Tabachnick is a professor in the Department of Political Science, Philosophy and Economics at Nipissing University. Toivo Koivukoski is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Nipissing University.

• Preface David Edward Tabachnick and Toivo KoivukoskiIn the Mirror of Antiquity: The Problem of American Empire David C. HendricksonDemocracy and Empire: The Case of Athens Laurie M. Johnson BagbyEmpire by Invitation of Domination? The Difference between Hemonia and Arkhe / David Edward TabachnickThe Freedom to Rule: Athenian Imperialism and Democratic Masculinity Ryan K. Balot Liberty and Empire, with the Benefit of Limited Hindsight - or What Herodotus of Halicarnassus Saw Clifford OrwinEmpire and the Eclipse of Politics Leah BradshawImperial Compulsions Toivo KoivukoskiRome and the Hellenistic World: Masculinity and Militarism, Monarchy and Republic Arthur M. EcksteinImperial Power in the Roman Republic Susan Mattern-ParkesThe Rise of Global Power and the Music of the Spheres: Philosophy and History in Cicero's De Re Publica Geoffrey KellowMachiavelli's Model of a Liberal Empire: The Evolution of Rome Waller R. NewellPost-9/11 Evocations of Empire in Light of Eric Voegelin's Political Science John von HeykingAthens as Hamlet: The Irresolute Empire Barry Strauss

By reaching back to the imperial histories of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, this fascinating collection explores the passages that global powers traverse as they rise and fall. - G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs