World Politics After Empire
Inhoudsopgave
Seminar 1: Introduction................................................................................................................................. 3
Answering the question........................................................................................................................................3
What is an empire?..............................................................................................................................................3
Halperin & palan..................................................................................................................................................3
Adom Getachnew: World-making after empire...................................................................................................3
Seminar 2: What is empire?........................................................................................................................... 4
The Global Cold war Odd Arne Westad...............................................................................................................4
Worldmaking after Empire Adom Getachnew....................................................................................................4
Patterns of Empire Julian Go...............................................................................................................................5
Define Empire.......................................................................................................................................................5
Orientalism...........................................................................................................................................................6
Hugh Gusterson....................................................................................................................................................7
Bruce Cumings......................................................................................................................................................7
Seminar 3: Orientalism in war & security....................................................................................................... 8
Bruce Cumpings, Amercan Orientalism at Korean war........................................................................................8
Hugh Gusterson, nuclear weapons......................................................................................................................9
Orientalisme.......................................................................................................................................................10
Global governance – normative dimensions......................................................................................................10
The UN................................................................................................................................................................11
The Un system specialized agencies..................................................................................................................11
UN Funds and Programmes...............................................................................................................................12
Pearson Defending empire at the un.................................................................................................................12
Parashar: postcolonial critique of the women peace and security....................................................................12
Seminar 4: The UN & Global governance...................................................................................................... 13
Pearson Defending empire at the UN................................................................................................................13
Parashar: postcolonial critique of the women peace and security....................................................................13
Global North and Global south..........................................................................................................................14
Seminar 5: International Law & Human rights..............................................................................................15
What is international law?.................................................................................................................................15
Anthony Anghie: The colonial origins of international law................................................................................16
Human rights......................................................................................................................................................17
Randall Williams: The divided world: Human rights and its violence................................................................17
Amnesty international (Randall Williams).........................................................................................................18
, Latha Varadarajan: The trials of imperialism, Tokyo tribunal...........................................................................19
Seminar 6: Global militaries......................................................................................................................... 20
Adam Moore: Colonial legacies and labor export..............................................................................................20
Catherine Lutz: The Bases of empire, (gebruiken voor paper!)..........................................................................21
Barkawi: Imperial Armies...................................................................................................................................21
Seminar 7: Race & The global colour line...................................................................................................... 22
Branwen Gruffydd Jones: Good governance and state failure..........................................................................22
Srdjan Vucetic: Anzus, Britain and the “pacific pact”........................................................................................23
, Seminar 1: Introduction
In a world of sovereign state, are empires a thing of the past?
Big transformation, from empires to sovereign states
How did this transition go?
Answering the question.
In a world of sovereign state, are empires a thing of the past?
Rijken in de vorm binnen het verleden zijn eerder in een andere vorm terug te zien in het
heden. Veel landen zijn nog afhankelijk van grote rijkelanden als, VS, China ne Rusland.
Echter, in de natiestaat Frankrijk zijn nog oude historische kenmerken van een rijkte zien,
nog steeds kent Frankrijk overzeese gebieden.
Genuanceerde manier van een empire.
Kwestie van definitie.
What is an empire?
Grootmacht, rijk, veel invloed, maken veel mensen/gebieden/landen afhankelijk van hen.
French and Raven’s bases of power.
Two approaches
Empire as a historical category
Empire as an analytical category
Halperin & palan
Conventional distinction
Empires Nation-states
Hierarchy & heterogeneity Homogeneus collectivities
Core and periphery World of equal units
Security problems are internal Security problems are external.
Adom Getachnew: World-making after empire
What is empire?
Empire = alien rule + international structure of unequal integration and racial hierarchy.
Exceeds bilateral relations of colonizer and colonized.
World- constituting force
What is decolonization?
Anticolonial nationalism as worldmaking, before nation building
Decolonization: “a project or reordering the world to create domination free and egalitarian
international order.
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