Don¡¯t Search for Monsters to Destroy

Geopolitical Myths and the US Quest for Unipolar Power is the title of the English edition of Lars Erslev Andersen¡¯s latest book in Danish Den amerikanske mission. Mytologi og magt. The point of departure is the divided American society that is politically polarized between American nationalism and a globalist quest for global power. To analyze the problem the book develops a theory of political myths and identity and presents a conceptual history of US security politics since the founding until the Biden administration, arguing that the global unipolar power ambitions contribute to the dynamics dividing the US society and American politics.

The speaker, Lars Erslev Andersen, is a historian of ideas and Senior Researcher at DIIS specializing in US Middle East policy and the intellectual history of world order.