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"Since the birth of the nation, the idea of empire has been at the heart of the United States' image of itself. Through a close reading of both the acknowledged grand strategists as well as the more non-conformist foreign policy analysts, Anderson charts the entwined historical development of America's imperial reach and its role as the general guarantor of capital. The tensions between these are traced from the closing stages of the Second World War through the Cold War to the War on Terror. Despite the defeat of the USSR, Anderson shows that the planetary structures for warfare and surveillance have not been retracted but extended. The future of the Empire remains to be settled"--

Imperialism --- History --- United States --- Foreign relations --- Imperialism - History - 20th century --- Imperialism - History - 21st century --- United States - Foreign relations - 1945-1989 --- United States - Foreign relations - 1989 --- -Imperialism

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This comparative analysis demonstrates how state fragmentation results from a causal chain of geopolitical strains, resource shortfalls, intra-elite conflict, and the deficiency of a central government's coercive capability to hold the society together. The emergence process of new sovereign states is also discussed.

Failed states -- History. --- Failed states. --- Geopolitics. --- Imperialism -- History -- 18th century. --- Imperialism -- History -- 19th century. --- Imperialism -- History -- 20th century. --- Failed states --- Failed states --- Imperialism --- Imperialism --- Imperialism --- Geopolitics --- History --- History --- History --- History

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Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, the contributors to Tensions of Empire investigate metropolitan-colonial relationships from a new perspective. The fifteen essays demonstrate various ways in which "civilizing missions" in both metropolis and colony provided new sites for clarifying a bourgeois order. Focusing on the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, they show how new definitions of modernity and welfare were developed and how new discourses and practices of inclusion and exclusion were contested and worked out. The contributors argue that colonial studies can no longer be confined to the units of analysis on which it once relied; instead of being the study of "the colonized," it must account for the shifting political terrain on which the very categories of colonized and colonizer have been shaped and patterned at different times.

Colonies. --- Imperialism --- History, Modern --- Anti-colonialism --- Colonial affairs --- Colonialism --- Neocolonialism --- Non-self-governing territories --- Colonization --- World history --- History --- Europe --- History, Modern -- 19th century.. --- History, Modern -- 20th century.. --- Imperialism -- History -- 19th century.. --- Imperialism -- History -- 20th century.. --- Colonies.. --- Europe -- History -- 1789-1900.. --- Europe -- History -- 20th century. --- History, Modern - 19th century. --- History, Modern - 20th century. --- Imperialism - History - 19th century. --- Imperialism - History - 20th century. --- Colonies --- Colonisation --- Histoire coloniale --- 18th century. --- 19th century. --- 20th century. --- academic. --- analysis. --- bourgeoisie. --- colonialism. --- colonies. --- colonists. --- colonization. --- empire. --- essay anthology. --- essay collection. --- europe. --- european colonies. --- european history. --- exclusion. --- imperial. --- imperialism. --- inclusion. --- metropolis. --- metropolitan. --- modern life. --- modern world. --- modernity. --- political. --- politics. --- scholarly. --- small town. --- welfare. --- world history.

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Stirring language and appeals to collective action were integral to the battles fought to defend empires and to destroy them. These wars of words used rhetoric to make their case. That rhetoric is the subject of this collection of essays exploring the arguments fought over empire in a wide variety of geographic, political, social and cultural contexts. Why did imperialist language remain so pervasive in Britain, France and elsewhere throughout much of the twentieth century? What rhetorical devices did political leaders, administrators, investors and lobbyists use to justify colonial domination before domestic and foreign audiences? How far did their colonial opponents mobilize a different rhetoric of rights and freedoms to challenge them? These questions are at the heart of this collection. Essays range from Theodore Roosevelt's articulation of American imperialism in the early 1900s to the rhetorical battles surrounding European decolonization in the late twentieth century.

Imperialism --- Rhetoric --- World politics --- Social conflict --- Impérialisme --- --Rhétorique --- --Politique mondiale --- --Conflit social --- --XXe s., --- History --- Political aspects --- Politics and literature --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Imperialism - History - 20th century --- Rhetoric - Political aspects --- World politics - 20th century --- Social conflict - History - 20th century --- Rhétorique --- Politique mondiale --- Conflit social --- XXe s., 1901-2000

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"At the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had occupied; Woodrow Wilson and a groundswell of anti-imperialist activism stood in their way. France, Belgium, Japan and the British dominions reluctantly agreed to an Anglo-American proposal to hold and administer those allied conquests under 'mandate' from the new League of Nations. In the end, fourteen mandated territories were set up across the Middle East, Africa and the Pacific. Against all odds, these disparate and far-flung territories became the site and the vehicle of global transformation. In this masterful history of the mandates system, Susan Pedersen illuminates the role the League of Nations played in creating the modern world. Tracing the system from its creation in 1920 until its demise in 1939, Pedersen examines its workings from the realm of international diplomacy; the viewpoints of the League's experts and officials; and the arena of local struggles within the territories themselves. Featuring a cast of larger-than-life figures, including Lord Lugard, King Faisal, Chaim Weizmann and Ralph Bunche, the narrative sweeps across the globe--from windswept scrublands along the Orange River to famine-blighted hilltops in Rwanda to Damascus under French bombardment--but always returns to Switzerland and the sometimes vicious battles over ideas of civilization, independence, economic relations, and sovereignty in the Geneva headquarters. As Pedersen shows, although the architects and officials of the mandates system always sought to uphold imperial authority, colonial nationalists, German revisionists, African-American intellectuals and others were able to use the platform Geneva offered to challenge their claims. Amid this cacophony, imperial statesmen began exploring new means--client states, economic concessions--of securing Western hegemony. In the end, the mandate system helped to create the world in which we now live. A riveting work of global history, The Guardians enables us to look back at the League with new eyes, and in doing so, appreciate how complex, multivalent, and consequential this first great experiment in internationalism really was"--

Imperialism --- Colonies --- Mandates --- World politics --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Internationalism --- International relations --- Impérialisme --- Mandats internationaux --- Politique mondiale --- Anti-impérialisme --- Internationalisme --- Relations internationales --- History --- Histoire --- League of Nations --- History. --- Impérialisme --- Anti-impérialisme --- World history --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1920-1929 --- Advice and Rights. --- Anti-imperialist movements. --- Colonies. --- FN --- HISTORY --- Imperialism. --- Imperialismus. --- International relations. --- Internationalism. --- Mandates. --- Mandatsgebiet. --- World politics. --- Historia. --- General --- Modern --- 20th Century. --- World. --- League of Nations. --- Völkerbund. --- 1900-1999. --- Imperialism - History - 20th century --- Colonies - History - 20th century --- Mandates - History - 20th century --- World politics - 1919-1932 --- World politics - 1933-1945 --- Anti-imperialist movements - History - 20th century --- Internationalism - History - 20th century --- International relations - History - 20th century