Great Imperial Hangover

Product Description For The First Time In Millennia We Live Without Formal Empires. But That DoesnT Mean We DonT Feel Their Presence Rumbling Through History. The Great Imperial Hangover Examines How The WorldS Imperial Legacies Are Still Shaping The Thorniest Issues We Face Today. From RussiaS Incursions In The Ukraine To Brexit; From TrumpS America-First Policy To ChinaS Forays Into Africa; From ModiS India To The Hotbed Of The Middle East, Puri Provides A Bold New Framework For Understanding The WorldS Complex Rivalries And Politics. Organised By Region, And Covering Vital Topics Such As Security, Foreign Policy, National Politics And Commerce, The Great Imperial Hangover Combines Gripping History And Astute Analysis To Explain Why The History Of Empire Affects Us All In Profound Ways. Review A Timely And Important Re-Thinking Of Imperial Dominion. * Sam Willis, Author Of The Struggle For Sea Power * This Is A Masterly, Engaging, Thought-Provoking And Wide-Ranging Study Of How The Vestiges Of Past Empires Shape The Ways In Which The World Works Today. * James Daybell, Author Of Histories Of The Unexpected * An Excellent Read. Samir Puri Has Written A Calm, Distilled And Bracing Book. * Robert D. Kaplan, Author Of The Return Of Marco PoloS World * Masterly. I Found New Insights On Almost Every Page. It Achieves The Remarkable Feat Of Deepening Our Self-Knowledge While At The Same Time Broadening Our Understanding Of The World Around Us. * Paul Strathern, Author Of Rise And Fall: A History Of The World In Ten Empires * Enlightening... [Puri] Makes A Credible Case For How, In The Us And China, Imperial Legacies Have Left Those Powers With Different Values That Would Be Hard To Reconcile. * Spectator * About The Author Samir Puri Grew Up In 1980S London In A Family That Had Traversed Three Continents In Three Generations, From Asia To Africa To Europe. He Later Completed A Phd At Cambridge University In International Relations, Worked At Rand, And Then The Foreign Office, Where His Assignments Covered Counter Terrorism, And A Year In East Ukraine Monitoring The Onset Of War In 2014. After Government Service, Dr Puri Became A Lecturer In War Studies At KingS College London, And Also Taught At Cambridge And Johns Hopkins. The Great Imperial Hangover Is A Distillation Of These Varied Perspectives: From The Academic To The Practical; From The Personal To The Political; And From The Descendants Of The Colonized To Those Of The Colonizers.