The seeming economic collapse of the 1980's has not been the result of "imperial overstretch" but of internal, somewhat conspiratorial politics.

The imperial overstretch of Wahres Reich cause frictions and strained relations with other nations as follows.

It was this question of imperial overstretch.

I is for imperial overstretch - the extension of an empire beyond its abilities.

As in: "Might Washington, like Rome, fall victim to imperial overstretch?"

Left uncorrected, this imbalance, which Kennedy terms "imperial overstretch," will continue to erode the economic foundations that are the true base of our global power.

Robert Axelrod's work on modelling this effect is worth seeing, especially in respect of the spontaneous emergence of imperial overstretch in abstact modelling.

Talk about imperial overstretch.

Mr. Kennedy wrote that economic power leads to "imperial overstretch," which in turn produces economic exhaustion and a loss of power - in short, permanent decline.

Mr. Kennedy, a historian at Yale University, contends that the United States runs the risk of "imperial overstretch."