The article intends to show the position of the United States in a different conceptual and historical context, as attempt to run away itself of the immediacy of the current debate of the state as one to be able imperial or hegemonic, brought for the current discussion. It discloses thus, problems of definitions of the concepts of imperialism and hegemony, as well as of the formal and informal domination, distorting the real image and position of North America in the international field in the current days.
United States; Imperialism; Multilateralism