# Limes Americanum - the symbolic and the practical in US foreign relations

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The piece argues that allied countries can treat the United States as an empire through symbolic analogies even when the United States rejects that identity.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 May 2006

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 22 May 2006
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: united-states, empire, foreign-policy, analogy.

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