Book section · January 1, 2024
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is perhaps the most important manifestation of China's global ascendancy. The literature across the world about the initiative cannot agree on whether it represents a new form of imperialism or a “soft power” expressi ...
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Book section · January 1, 2022
Contemporary world politics is structured around the world order of nation-states in turn founded largely upon a Newtonian cosmology and an associated worldview. I develop a conceptual framework around the ‘epistemic engine’ which organizes and circulates ...
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Book section · January 1, 2015
Although decolonization has been one of the most significant events in the twentieth century, transforming colonies and dependent territories into nation states, it remains an amorphous term because of the different phases and varieties of decolonization. ...
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Book section · September 18, 2012
The renewed interest in imperialism after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has re-cast a vexed problem regarding the delimitation of the scope of the term imperialism. The urge to distinguish 'imperialism' from 'empire' has surfaced as some scholars seek t ...
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Book section · December 1, 2009
The present moment is one of high visibility for diasporic and migrant communities. Indeed, they are often celebrated as cosmopolitan, in-between communities who are self-starters and drivers of success of the countries from which they or their ancestors e ...
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Book section · January 1, 2008
Most Chinese are extremely proud of their long and continuous historical civilization, which some claim extends for five thousand years. But for much of the twentieth century, Chinese revolutionaries had a very ambivalent and mostly negative view of these ...
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Book section · January 1, 2004
From a historian’s perspective, decolonization was one of the most important political developments of the twentieth century because it turned the world into the stage of history. Until World War I, historical writing had been the work of the European conq ...
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