Empires
"Empires are more than major states, and they move within a world of their own. As for states, they are included in a system that they formulated with other states, and therefore they cannot be controlled by empires alone On the contrary, she understands herself as the creator and guarantor of a system that will not be stable without her. It must defend it against the outbreak of chaos that represents a constant threat to it and take a closer look at history, not only the history of the United States of America, but the history of other empires as well. It shows us that the use of linguistic expressions such as "axis of evil" or "outposts of tyranny "It is not new or special, but it runs through the history of empires like a continuous red thread. This book is therefore about patterns of imperial sovereignty, forms of expansion and stability, and about the global media in which and through which empire is achieved. The cognitive interest here will not be limited to the distinction between maritime and land empires, and commercial and military empires, among the imperial systems that are developing The control of regions and those that are essentially based on controlling flows (humans, goods, capital), but all of this will go beyond the rationality of the forces And to the logic of universal sovereignty. "
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Empires
"Empires are more than major states, and they move within a world of their own. As for states, they are included in a system that they formulated with other states, and therefore they cannot be controlled by empires alone On the contrary, she understands herself as the creator and guarantor of a system that will not be stable without her. It must defend it against the outbreak of chaos that represents a constant threat to it and take a closer look at history, not only the history of the United States of America, but the history of other empires as well. It shows us that the use of linguistic expressions such as "axis of evil" or "outposts of tyranny "It is not new or special, but it runs through the history of empires like a continuous red thread. This book is therefore about patterns of imperial sovereignty, forms of expansion and stability, and about the global media in which and through which empire is achieved. The cognitive interest here will not be limited to the distinction between maritime and land empires, and commercial and military empires, among the imperial systems that are developing The control of regions and those that are essentially based on controlling flows (humans, goods, capital), but all of this will go beyond the rationality of the forces And to the logic of universal sovereignty. "
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"Empires are more than major states, and they move within a world of their own. As for states, they are included in a system that they formulated with other states, and therefore they cannot be controlled by empires alone On the contrary, she understands herself as the creator and guarantor of a system that will not be stable without her. It must defend it against the outbreak of chaos that represents a constant threat to it and take a closer look at history, not only the history of the United States of America, but the history of other empires as well. It shows us that the use of linguistic expressions such as "axis of evil" or "outposts of tyranny "It is not new or special, but it runs through the history of empires like a continuous red thread. This book is therefore about patterns of imperial sovereignty, forms of expansion and stability, and about the global media in which and through which empire is achieved. The cognitive interest here will not be limited to the distinction between maritime and land empires, and commercial and military empires, among the imperial systems that are developing The control of regions and those that are essentially based on controlling flows (humans, goods, capital), but all of this will go beyond the rationality of the forces And to the logic of universal sovereignty. "

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ISBN-13: 9789773136574
Publisher: ???????? ????? ????????
Publication date: 10/20/2024
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 339
File size: 4 MB
Age Range: 16 - 18 Years
Language: Arabic

About the Author

مواليد ولاية هيسن بألمانيا. حصل على الدكتوراه عام 1981 بعمل حول "تاريخ الفلسفة والفعل السياسي"، ثم حصل على درجة الأستاذية عام 1987 بعمل حول "مصلحة الدولة العليا كمصطلح إرشادي في بداية العصر الحديث". وقد تنقَّل بين عِدَّة وظائف جامعية وهو يعمل منذ 1992 أستاذًا للعلوم السياسية في جامعة هومبولت ببرلين. وهو يبحث بصفة أساسية في مجال علم الأفكار، وله غير كتابه الذي صدر عن مركز المحروسة "إمبراطوريات" أعمالٌ كثيرة جدًّا، منها: "الحروب الجديدة" (2002)، "من الحرب إلى الإرهاب" (2005)، "تحوُّل الحروب" (2006)، "الألمان وأساطيرهم" (2008)، "التوسُّط والتدبير" (2010)، "الحرب العظمى" (2013)، "الخيانة الحربية" (2015)، و"حرب الثلاثين عامًا" (2017).

Table of Contents


Preface     vii
Acknowledgements     x
What is an Empire?     1
A brief sketch of the characteristics of empires     4
World empires and great empires     9
The compulsion to intervene, neutrality options and the Melian dialogue in Thucydides     14
Empire, Imperialism and Hegemony a Necessary Distinction     18
The self-destructive dynamic of capitalism: economic theories of imperialism     19
The centre-periphery problem     22
Prestige and great power rivalry: political theories of imperialism     28
Expansion pressures, marginality advantages and time sovereignty     34
The tricky distinction between hegemony and empire     40
Steppe Empires, Sea Empires and Global Economies: a Short Typology of Imperial Rule     47
The formation of empires through military and commercial extraction of surplus product     49
The two (at least two) sides of empires     59
Imperial cycles and Augustan thresholds     65
Civilization and Barbarian Frontiers: Tasks and Hallmarks of Imperial Order     80
Peace as a justification for imperial rule     81
Imperial missions and the sacredness of empire     84
The idea of the barbarian and the construction of imperial space     96
Prosperity as a justification and programme for imperial rule     101
The Defeat of Empires by the Power of the Weak     108
Forms of imperial overstretch     111
Political mobilization and military asymmetry: the strategies of anti-imperial players     119
Cultural identity struggles and terrorism as a strategy for wars of devastation     130
The Surprising Return of Empire in the Post-Imperial Age     139
Analyses of the end of empire and the problem of post-imperial areas     141
The United States: the new empire     146
A democratic empire?     154
Europe's imperial challenge     161
Maps     168
Notes     190
References and Bibliography     221
Index     239
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