The Past as Prologue: An Imperial Manual

Donnelly, Thomas; Boot, Max

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“…From these origins springs the normative correlate that what is needed in the world today is more, not less, American imperialism. As Ferguson () insists, the United States needs to recognize the imperiality of its condition and to start acting “as a global hegemon and make the world a more stable place” (also see Donnelly ; Ferguson , ; Ignatieff ,b).…”

Section: New Imperialism: Geopolitical Approachesmentioning

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New Imperialism: Toward a Holistic Approach

Kettell

Sutton

2013

Int Stud Rev

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A prominent theme in scholarly analyses of contemporary international affairs concerns the extent to which the unrivalled power and activities of the United States can be said to constitute a form of imperialism. Typically, the contours of this debate center on the ostensible differences between “old” and “new” varieties of imperialist practice. Yet the concept of “new imperialism” remains one on which little consensus exists. Wide differences of opinion on its origins, dynamics, and characteristics are evident, as is an analytical bifurcation between distinct “economic” and “geopolitical” explanations. This absence of conceptual unity leads to accounts of new imperialist strategy that are partial, limited, and incomplete. If the theoretical value of new imperialism is to be realized, a more holistic approach is needed. To this end, some of the key differences between the contexts of new and old imperialism are explored.

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Section: New Imperialism: Geopolitical Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Imperialism: Toward a Holistic Approach

Kettell

Sutton

2013

Int Stud Rev

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“…His analysis of how political and economic considerations are combined within empire is one of the most convincing. They see instead an urgent task ahead: to acknowledge the reality of the imperial burden and to move along with the serious business of how to do it best (Bacevich 2002;Donnelly 2002;Rosen 2002). .…”

Section: Domesticity Disrupted: Vasco Da Gama Stillmentioning

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Empire through Diasporic Eyes: A View from the Other Boat

2004

Comp. Stud. Soc. Hist.

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There is something very characteristic of the indifference which we show towards this mighty phenomenon of the diffusion of our race and the expansion of our state. We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. . . . We constantly betray by our modes of speech that we do not reckon our colonies as really belonging to us.---J. R. Seeley (1883:8) And finally, be straight with the American people. Tell them the truth-and when you cannot tell them something, tell them you cannot tell them.---Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense (2002:32) cy of a clash of civilizations (Huntington 1993) in popular discourse and political decision-making, a phenomenon on this horrendous scale remains within the purview of anthropologists if one sees it as an instance of culture contact under conditions of global imperialism, unmitigated by colonial administration. 3 The distinction between imperialism and colonialism is critical. Talal Asad's Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter (1973) launched anthropology on an auto-critique by noting that its quiet field sites were fields of colonial power, and its practitioners members of colonizing societies. 4 Colonialism refers to foreign presence in, possession of, and domination over bounded, local places. Today, the multi-sited ethnographies we increasingly pursue need to be analytically framed within a field of power which is transnational. The term imperialism refers to foreign domination, without the necessity of presence or possession, over expansive, transnational spaces-and many places. 5 Within the purview of U.S. power, then, the appropriate term for this frame is not postcolonialism, but ongoing imperialism. The time may soon be upon us for a sequel to Asad's volume, now trained on American anthropology and the imperial encounter. While the terms globalization, neo-liberalism, and late-liberalism may have been productive in probing the complexities of consent to contemporary transnational hegemony, they have been less attentive to its classical twin, coercion. While colonialism may be the past of British and French anthropology, imperialism is the long present of the American one. Thus the sense of urgency, again (Hymes 1999(Hymes [1969).In what follows, I look at a series of contacts between Western empires and Muslim societies through the eyes of a Muslim diaspora, as it were, a mobile people with a written history. The review suggests that what is new to this history is the unique nature of American power worldwide. In its global reach it is imperial, but in its disavowal of administration on the ground, it is anti-colonial. Decoupling the concept of colonialism from that of imperialism is a necessary step in thinking about this new mode of domination, and it is a task this essay sets for itself. empire through diasporic eyes 211 3 In his book which elaborated on the provocative thesis of his original 1993 essay, Huntington noted that the question mark in the essay title had been generally ignored (1997:13). 4 Some o...

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“…Designing military operations in an era of constant, low-level insurgency is not something the military does eagerly or well (Vest, 2002;Hoffman, 2004). These operations are somehow trivialised as being beneath the dignity of major military planners or commanders (Donnelly, 2002). However, our greatest security risks come from weak or failed states (Fukuyama, 2004).…”

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Learning from the Philippine occupation: nation‐building and institutional development in Iraq and other high security risk nations

Klingner

Jones

2005

Public Admin & Development

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Outcomes of armed conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq indicate that the U.S. has been unprepared to fully address problems related to establishing social and economic stability, security and governance in the aftermath of war. This is unfortunate, given that U.S. policy makers' nation-building efforts to achieve stability, security and good governance in these nations do not reflect what they should already have learnt about organisational and institutional development from past experiences providing significant development assistance to highly unstable nations. Based on the analysis rendered in this article, 'smart practice' development administration in such nations comprises the following key points that link nation building to institutional/ organisational development: * Nation building (creating new national sovereignty) is different from, and harder than, building government capacity (creating or strengthening institutions and organisations).

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The Past as Prologue: An Imperial Manual

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New Imperialism: Toward a Holistic Approach

Empire through Diasporic Eyes: A View from the Other Boat

Learning from the Philippine occupation: nation‐building and institutional development in Iraq and other high security risk nations

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