Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace

Daedalus

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 46-57

  Pagden, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 21744460019     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0011526053887301     Document Type: Review

References (38)

1. Quoted in Emmanuel Todd, Après l'empire: essai sur la décomposition du système américain (Paris: Gallimard, 2002), 22. Ironically - or perhaps not - she was justifying a missile attack on Iraq.
2. Niall Ferguson, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 317;
3. Ferguson, Colossus: The Price of America's Empire (New York: Penguin Press, 2004), 3-7.
4. See P. A. Blunt, "Laus imperii," in Peter Garnsey and C. R. Whittaker, eds., Imperialism in the Ancient World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978), 159-191.
5. Joseph Schumpeter, Imperialism and Social Classes, trans. Heinz Norden (New York: A. M. Kelley, 1951), 7.
6. This has been described most recently and with great brilliance by Clifford Ando, Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).
7. Linda Colley, Captives: Britain, Empire and the World, 1600-1850 (London: Jonathan Cape, 2002), 259.
8. "Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts," quoted in Uday Singh Mehta, Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 157.
9. Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters, ed. David Bromwich (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000), 15-16.
10. Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chap. 3.
11. See Anthony Pagden, Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France c.1500 - c.1800 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995), 178-187.
12. Adam Smith, "Thoughts on the State of the Contest with America," in Ernest Campbell Mossner and Ian Simpson Ross, eds., Correspondence of Adam Smith, vol. 6 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977), 383.
13. David Hume, "On the Jealousy of Trade," in Eugene F. Miller, ed., Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1985), 328.
14. Benjamin Constant, The Spirit of Conquest and Usurpation and their Relation to European Civilization in Political Writings, ed. and trans. Biancamaria Fontana (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 79.
15. Schumpeter, Imperialism and Social Classes, 99.
16. Quoted in Harold Nicolson, Curzon: The Last Phase, 1919-1925: A Study in Post-War Diplomacy (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934), 13.
17. Quoted in Thomas R. Metcalf, Ideologies of the Raj (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 34.
18. See Anthony Pagden, "Human Rights, Natural Rights and Europe's Imperial Legacy," Political Theory 31 (2003): 171-199.
19. Quoted in Edward Keene, Beyond the Anarchical Society: Grotius, Colonialism and Order in World Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 63.
20. Sir John Robert Seeley, The Expansion of England (London: Macmillan, 1883), 12.
21. This, for instance, is the argument behind Robert D. Kaplan's Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (New York: Random House, 2002),
22. and in a very different and more measured tone, Chalmers A. Johnson's, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004) - although Kaplan approves and Johnson disapproves.
23. Tacitus, Annals II, 23-24.
24. Quoted by Arthur Schelsinger, Jr. in "The Making of a Mess," The New York Review of Books 51 (14) (September 2004): 41.
25. Federalist 11 in The Federalist Papers, ed. Isaac Kramnick (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987), 133-134.
26. Quoted in Ferguson, Colossus, 80.
27. Quoted in Rashid Khalidi, Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (Boston: Beacon Press, 2004), 3.
28. "Rapport fait par M. Tocqueville sur le projet de la loi relative aux credits extraordinaires demandés pour l'Algérie," in Seloua Luste Boulbina, ed., Tocqueville sur l'Algérie, 1847 (Paris: Flammarion, 2003), 228.
29. Frank Ninkovich, The United States and Imperialism (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2001), 75.
30. See Christina Duffy Burnett and Burke Marshall, eds., Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001).
31. On this term, see Michael Mann, Incoherent Empire (London: Verso, 2003), 11.
32. Robert Kagan, Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order (London: Atlantic Books, 2003), 3.
33. Immanuel Kant, "Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose," in Hans Reiss, ed., Political Writings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 51.
34. Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals, trans. Mary Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 156.
35. Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals, 158;
36. Anthony Pagden, "Stoicism, Cosmopolitanism and the Legacy of European Imperialism," Constellations 7 (2000); 3-22.
37. Immanuel Kant, "Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch," in Reiss, ed., Political Writings, 112.
38. Immanuel Kant, "An Answer to the Question: 'What is Enlightenment?'" in Reiss, ed., Political Writings, 54-55.