Table Of ContentLegacies of Empire
Thenationstateisafairlyrecenthistoricalphenomenon.Humanhistory
overthepasttwotofourmillenniahasbeendominatedbyempires,andthe
legacies of these empires continue to shape the contemporary world in
waysthatarenotalwaysrecognizedorfullyunderstood.
MuchresearchandwritingaboutEuropeancolonialempireshasfocused
on relationships between them and their colonies. This book examines
the phenomenon of empire from a different perspective. It explores the
imprint that imperial institutions, organizational principles, practices
andlogicshaveleftonthemodernworld.Itshowsthatmanyfeaturesof
the contemporary world – modern armies, multiculturalism, globalized
finance, modern city states, the United Nations – have been profoundly
shaped by past empires. It also applies insights about the impact of past
empirestocontemporarypoliticsandconsidersthelong-terminstitutional
legaciesofthe‘Americanempire’.
sandra halperin is Professor of International Relations and
Co-director of the Centre for Global and Transnational Politics in the
Department of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway,
UniversityofLondon.Sheistheauthorofthreecross-regionalandtrans-
historicalcomparativestudies:IntheMirroroftheThirdWorld:Capitalist
Development in Modern Europe (1997), War and Social Change
in Modern Europe: The Great Transformation Revisited (2004) and
Re-Envisioning Global Development: A ‘Horizontal’Perspective (2013).
She is also the author of articles on globalization, development theory,
historicalsociology,nationalism,ethnicconflict,Islamanddemocracyin
theMiddleEast.
ronen palan is Professor of International Political Economy at City
University London. He has published many articles and books on the
subject of the offshore economy and theories of international political
economy.
Legacies of Empire
Imperial Roots of the Contemporary
Global Order
Editedby
sandra halperin
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ronen palan
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Contents
Listoffigures pagevii
Listoftables viii
Listofcontributors ix
Acknowledgments x
1 Introduction:legaciesofempire 1
sandra halperin and ronen palan
PartI Incompletetransitionsfromempirestonation
states 25
2 Politicalmilitarylegaciesofempireinworldpolitics 27
tarak barkawi
3 ThesecondBritishEmpireandthere-emergence
ofglobalfinance 46
ronen palan
4 Imperialcitystates,nationalstatesandpost-national
spatialities 69
sandra halperin
PartII Legaciesofnon-Europeanempiresintoday’s
world 97
5 ThelegacyofEurasiannomadicempires:remnants
oftheMongolimperialtradition 99
iver b. neumann and einar wigen
6 Themodernrootsoffeudalempires:thedonatary
captainciesandthelegaciesofthePortugueseEmpire
inBrazil 128
benjamin de carvalho
v
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7 ImperiallegaciesintheUNDevelopmentProgrammeand
theUNdevelopmentsystem 149
craig n. murphy
PartIII ThefuturelegaciesoftheAmericanEmpire 171
8 Foreignbases,sovereigntyandnationbuildingafter
empire:theUnitedStatesincomparativeperspective 173
alexander cooley
9 Empire,capitalandalegacyofendogenous
multiculturalism 197
herman mark schwartz
10 TheassemblageofAmericanimperium:hybridpower,
worldwarandworldgovernment(ality)inthetwenty-first
century 221
ronnie d. lipschutz
11 Conclusions 243
sandra halperin and ronen palan
Index 250
Figures
4.1 Changesinthenatureofspace:I page71
4.2 Changesinthenatureofspace:II 71
9.1 Largestethnicgroupbycounty,2000Census 214
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Tables
3.1 Top20internationalfinancialcentres,2010 page50
3.2 Aggregativelistoftopinternationalfinancial
centres,2010 51
4.1 RegionalinequalityinEuropebefore1945 84
5.1 Ideal-typicaltraitsofEuropeanandEurasianempires
compared 108
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