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14/04/2016

US Strategic Culture and its conformation as a great power since its founding (DIEEEO38-2016)

In the 58th quadrennial election of 2016, Americans will decide who is to become the 45th President of the United States of America. The electoral dilemma as well as the potential candidates' profiles, the people, ideas and interests they endorse may lead to a biased and superficial analysis. In fact, the American concepts of republicanism and democratic spirit lie beneath the country's foundation. It is somehow contradicted by some candidates' decline in discourse, its form and substance. However, for a thorough understanding of all the matters that mark the way the whole process work structurally, it is peremptory to address the ideological and cultural foundations of the United States, the first contemporary democracy. This way it is possible for citizens to depersonalize the electoral debate, cover the national culture and subcultures that either allow or hinder highly dissimilar candidacies and discourses, as well as the historical note of a global panorama that has given rise to this scenario.

Author: Javier Puerma Bonilla

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