start of the Cold War, the United States has economically and/or diplomatically supported friendly foreign governments, including many that overtly violated the civil and human rights of their own citizens and residents. American imperialism concepts were initially a product of capitalism critiques and, later, of theorists opposed to what they take to be aggressive United States policies and doctrines. Although there are various views of the imperialist nature of the United States, which describe many of the same policies and institutions as evidence of imperialism, explanations for imperialism vary widely. In spite of such literature, the historians Archibald Paton Thorton and Stuart Creighton Miller argue against the very coherence of the concept. Miller argues that the overuse and abuse of the term "imperialism" makes it nearly meaningless as an analytical concept. See also General Overseas interventions of the United States, Timeline of United States military operations, United States withdrawal from the United Nations, Hyperpower Doctrines Truman Doctrine, Reagan Doctrine, Clinton Doctrine, Bush Doctrine, Powell Doctrine, Wolfowitz Doctrine, Obama Doctrine Early concepts Civilizing mission, Platt Amendment, Holy Alliance, Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907) Modern concepts Bretton Woods system, Cold War (1985–1991), Neoconservatism, Anti-communism , New World Order, War on Terror Other Messianic democracy, Peace and Truce of God, 9/11 conspiracy theories, American Dream, Global Nightmare, Pax Russica, Documentary film Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space References Further reading Clarke, Peter. The last thousand days of the British empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the birth of the Pax Americana (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010) Lears, Jackson, "The Forgotten Crime of War Itself" (review of Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021, 400 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXIX, no. 7 (April 21, 2022), pp. 40–42. "After September 11 [2001] no politician asked whether the proper response to a terrorist attack should be a US war or an international police action. [...] Debating torture or other abuses, while indisputably valuable, has diverted Americans from 'deliberating on the deeper choice they were making to ignore constraints on starting war in the first place.' [W]ar itself causes far more suffering than violations of its rules." (p. 40.) Mee, Charles L. The Marshall Plan: The launching of the pax americana (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984) External links The end of the Pax Americana? by Michael Lind Why America Thinks it Has to Run the