... of the United Nations set the stage for the resurgence of international hierarchy and a newly unrestrained American imperialism. At the same time, the critical resources of anticolonial nationalism appeared to be exhausted as the institutional form of the postcolonial state fell short of its democratic...

... is to inquire into the dynamic of American imperialism in the islands since 1898 and the role the United States played in determining the values, practices, and institutions that constitute democracy in the Philippines today. It is a study in transplanting Western (or American-style) democracy to a distinctly...