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Legacies 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 and ronen palan UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107521612 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN978-1-107-10946-9Hardback ISBN978-1-107-52161-2Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. 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 vi Contents 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 vii Tables 3.1 Top20internationalfinancialcentres,2010 page50 3.2 Aggregativelistoftopinternationalfinancial centres,2010 51 4.1 RegionalinequalityinEuropebefore1945 84 5.1 Ideal-typicaltraitsofEuropeanandEurasianempires compared 108 viii
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