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