TY - BOOK ID - 85474247 TI - Legacies of empire : imperial roots of the contemporary global order AU - Halperin, Sandra AU - Palan, Ronen PY - 2015 SN - 1316355543 1316271676 1316349543 1107109469 1107521610 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Imperialism. KW - Postcolonialism. KW - State, The. KW - World politics. KW - International relations. KW - Coexistence KW - Foreign affairs KW - Foreign policy KW - Foreign relations KW - Global governance KW - Interdependence of nations KW - International affairs KW - Peaceful coexistence KW - World order KW - National security KW - Sovereignty KW - World politics KW - Colonialism KW - Global politics KW - International politics KW - Political history KW - Political science KW - World history KW - Eastern question KW - Geopolitics KW - International organization KW - International relations KW - Administration KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Post-colonialism KW - Postcolonial theory KW - Decolonization KW - Empires KW - Expansion (United States politics) KW - Neocolonialism KW - Anti-imperialist movements KW - Caesarism KW - Chauvinism and jingoism KW - Militarism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85474247 AB - The nation-state is a fairly recent historical phenomenon. Human history over the past two to four millennia has been dominated by empires, and the legacies of these empires continues to shape the contemporary world in ways that are not always recognised or fully understood. Much research and writing about European colonial empires has focused on relations between them and their colonies. This book examines the phenomenon of empire from a different perspective. It explores the imprint that imperial institutions, organisational principles, practices, and logics have left on the modern world. It shows that many features of the contemporary world - modern armies, multiculturalism, globalised finance, modern city-states, the United Nations - have been profoundly shaped by past empires. It also applies insights about the impact of past empires to contemporary politics and considers the long-term institutional legacies of the American 'empire'. ER -