When empire meets nationalism [ power politics in the US and Russia

"When Empire Meets Nationalism presents an in-depth political and sociological analysis of the internal power politics and imperial forms developed by the Russian neo-eurasianists and the neo-conservatives in the United States. This innovative study traces the growth of nationalism and the conc...

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Main Authors: Chaudet, Didier (Author), Parmentier, Florent (Author), Pelopidas, Benoit (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ;Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate Publishing , c2009
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Online Access:NetLibrary
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. The apostles of the empire : intellectual genealogies
  • 1. Neoconservatives, old and new
  • 2. From Eurasianism to neo-Eurasianism : nostalgia for the empire
  • Pt. II. Imperial calling and nationalism
  • 3. Anatomy of the empire : imperial nationalsim?
  • 4. American history through the neoconservative looking glass : imperial calling derived from nationalism
  • 5. The empire, neo-eurasianists and Russian nationalism
  • Pt. III. Geopolitics of imperial invocations : between cynicism, ideology and incoherence
  • 6. Islam
  • 7. Turkey and Central Asia
  • 8. The Middle East
  • Conclusion : the impossible empire of ressentiment
  • Afterword : changing people, continuing patterns?