Legacies of Empire: Political military legacies of empire in world politics
@inproceedings{Barkawi2015LegaciesOE, title={Legacies of Empire: Political military legacies of empire in world politics}, author={Tarak Barkawi}, year={2015} }
This book examines the legacies of empire in world politics. It is about the imprint that the old imperial organization of world politics has left on the contemporary ‘international’ world. What erstwhile logics, institutions and organizational principles continue to work their effects? How, half a century on from decolonization, does the formal imperial world still shape relations between peoples and places? How might it still limit political possibilities around the globe? In the social…
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