Post-imperial and quasi-imperial: State and empire in the global era

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 327-336

  Shaw, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0344243498     PISSN: 03058298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/03058298020310020701     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey, 'Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations', Millennium 31, no. 1 (2002): 109-127.
2. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).
3. Barkawi and Laffey, 'Retrieving the Imperial', 111.
4. Barkawi and Laffey, 'Retrieving the Imperial', 111. Ibid.
5. Barkawi and Laffey, 'Retrieving the Imperial' Ibid., 112.
6. Barkawi and Laffey, 'Retrieving the Imperial' Ibid., 113.
7. Barkawi and Laffey, 'Retrieving the Imperial' Ibid., 124-25.
8. Michael Mann, A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760, vol.1 of The Sources of Social Power (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 16.
9. See the definition of the state in Michael Mann, The Rise of Classes and Nation States: 1760-1914, vol. 2 of The Sources of Social Power (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 55
10. and Martin Shaw, Theory of the Global State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 179ff. Much of the argument in this article is derived from the latter.
11. Michael W. Doyle, Empire (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986), 30.
12. Craig N. Murphy, International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance Since 1850 (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994).
13. Vladimir I. Lenin, Imperialism: Highest Stage of Capitalism (New York: International Publishers, 1939)
14. and Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963).
15. Justin Rosenberg, The Empire of Civil Society (London: Verso, 1994).
16. See especially Nikolai Bukharin, Imperialism and World Economy (London: Merlin, 1973).
17. Ian Clark, Globalisation and Fragmentation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 19.
18. Massimo Salvadori, Karl Kautsty and the Socialist Revolution: 1880-1938, trans. Jon Rotschild (London: New Left Books, 1979), 193.
19. This contrast is developed in Shaw, Theory of the Global State, 206-07, table 1.
20. Robert Cooper, The Post-modern State and the World Order (London: Demos, 1996), 1
21. and Georg Sørenson, 'An Analysis of Contemporary Statehood: Consequences for Conflict and Cooperation', Review of International Studies 23, no. 3 (1997): 253-270.
22. The late Queen Elizabeth, widow of George VI of England and mother of the reigning Queen Elizabeth II, is reputed to have claimed a state funeral on the basis that she was the last Empress of India. But this left out Indira Ghandi!
23. Fred Halliday, Iran: Dictatorship and Development (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979).
24. I have argued that Bush's US has reinforced the repressive, authoritarian strategies of quasi-imperial states versus national movements: see my 'A Regressive Crystallization of Global State Power: Theorising a Response to the "War Against Terrorism"' [http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/109shaw.htm] (5 August 2002).
25. See Martin Shaw, 'The Problem of the Quasi-Imperial State: Uses and Abuses of Anti-Imperialism in the Global Era' (paper presented at the Conference on The Global Constitution of 'Failed States', University of Sussex, Brighton, 27 April 2001) [also available from http://www.martinshaw.org/empire.htm] (5 August 2002).