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In 195, on the advice of the majority of Rome's Greek friends, whose freedom the Romans had proclaimed the year before at the Isthmian Games at Corinth, launched a war on Nabis, erstwhile ally of Rome and ruler of Sparta since 207. The reason for Flamininus' change of heart, and even the justification for the war on Nabis in 195, has never been adequately or fully explained. The reason for this, it is argued here, is that the moral dimension of Roman behaviour, despite being the central feature of our ancient source accounts, is largely ignored in modern scholarly discussions, in favour of Realpolitik explanations and explanations based on Flamininus' self-interests and ambitions.

The citation of the parallels between ancient Rome and the modern U.S. enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in American journalism, political commentary, and popular current affairs literature during the first decade of the twenty-first century. These discussions, however, are riddled with errors about Roman history and mired in contemporary political partisanship, and the specific parallels cited are often irrelevant or too superficial to be meaningful, while other, more salient parallels are simply overlooked. Underlying such problems are American prejudices concerning Republics and Empires, an unsophisticated popular understanding of the terms "empire" and "imperialism, " as well as the predominance in modern American consciousness of a caricatured image of Rome that originates in Hollywood films. Recent discussions of the Rome-America parallel have been informed by all of these distortions, and by "projection"- the simultaneous identification and distancing impulses Self experiences when encountering the Other. Projection theory suggests that discussions of Roman power on both ends of the American political spectrum in the early 2000s tended towards the same end: the articulation of a desire for the preservation and perpetuation of American power and pre-eminence in an increasingly uncertain and dangerous world.

The citation of the parallels between ancient Rome and the modern U.S. enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in American journalism, political commentary, and popular current affairs literature during the first decade of the twenty-first century. These discussions, however, are riddled with errors about Roman history and mired in contemporary political partisanship, and the specific parallels cited are often irrelevant or too superficial to be meaningful, while other, more salient parallels are simply overlooked. Underlying such problems are American prejudices concerning Republics and Empires, an unsophisticated popular understanding of the terms "empire" and "imperialism, " as well as the predominance in modern American consciousness of a caricatured image of Rome that originates in Hollywood films. Recent discussions of the Rome-America parallel have been informed by all of these distortions, and by "projection"- the simultaneous identification and distancing impulses Self experiences when encountering the Other. Projection theory suggests that discussions of Roman power on both ends of the American political spectrum in the early 2000s tended towards the same end: the articulation of a desire for the preservation and perpetuation of American power and pre-eminence in an increasingly uncertain and dangerous world.

The English-language press and current affairs literature often drew parallels between the modern United States and ancient Rome during a period of robust American military intervention, particularly in the Middle East, between 2000 and 2010. How was the

The English-language press and current affairs literature often drew parallels between the modern United States and ancient Rome during a period of robust American military intervention, particularly in the Middle East, between 2000 and 2010. How was the

The City of Gold Coast in Australia has grown rapidly over the last half century to become the sixth largest city in the country and the second largest local government by population. It is seen by many to have become the epitome of neoliberal local government in Australia. This paper critically reviews this assumption of neoliberalisation through an analysis of the changing nature of governance in the city which draws on Saunders' dual state thesis. This uses three dimensions: institutional structures, forms of politics, and ideological underpinnings, and considers a number of exemplary policies. It concludes that, apart from a brief period in which a set of Keynesian principles of intervention flourished, the city has indeed proceeded along a broadly neoliberal path but will face growing pressures in the future to develop programmes of social as well as economic intervention.