Description
Empire is one of the oldest forms of political organisation and has dominated societies in all parts of the world. Yet, despite the emergence of nation-states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the apparent end of empire with the breakup of European colonial regimes and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century, empire remains powerful in the modern world. The EU�s accession policies, the United States� War on Terror, China�s economic developments in Africa, among others, draw accusations of imperial agendas. Empire is no stranger to crisis but, in recent years, the effects of global austerity have forced states, both powerful and weak, to adapt, with varying degrees of success and failure. The confusions, contradictions, and contestations which emerge from imperial crisis point to a vital question � how is Austerity changing Empire and how will this shape tomorrow�s world?This book was published as a special issue of Global Discourse.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Between these two kinds of death Russell Foster
2. Building an empire or not? Athenian imperialism and the United States in the twenty-first century Alexandros Koutsoukis
3. On empire and strategy: a reply to Alexandros Koutsoukis Constantinos Koliopoulos
4. East, West, Rome’s best? The imperial turn Adrian Campbell
5. The empire never ended: a response to Adrian Campbell Neville Morley
6. The new pirate wars: the world market as imperial formation Amedeo Policante
7. Piracy and the international rule of law: reply to Amedeo Policante Eliga H. Gould
8. ‘…territorial acquisitions are among the landmarks of our history’: the buying and leasing of imperial territory Dominic Alessio
9. ‘ "… territorial acquisitions are among the landmarks of our history": the buying and leasing of imperial territory’: a reply to Dominic Alessio Simon Philpott
10. From post-imperial Britain to post-British imperialism Callum McCormick
11. A comment on British imperial decline and the conditions of emergence for Scottish nationalism: reply to Callum McCormick Neil Davidson
Essays
12. Return of the Maxim Gun? Technology and empire in an age of austerity Michael A. Reynolds
13. The English School and the concept of ‘empire’: theoretical and practical/political implications Yannis A. Stivachtis
14. Relinquishing and governing the volatile: the many Afghanistans and critical research agendas of NATO’s governance Bojan Savic
Symposium on the Falkland Islands Dispute
15. The Falkland/Malvinas dispute: a contemporary battle between history and memory Christopher J. Hewer
16. Malvinas: politics, territory and internationalism Ronaldo Munck
17. A geopolitical perspective on Argentina’s Malvinas/Falkland claims
