The Empire Trap: the Rise and Fall of US Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas (1893-2013) Noel Maurer Princeton University Press, 568pp, £27.95 “We don’t seek empires. We’re not imperialistic. We never have been.” So said Donald Rumsfeld in an interview on al-Jazeera in April 2003. Coming one month in to the invasion of Iraq, … Continue reading Is America’s influence “empire by invitation”?