Tom Stevenson

Someone Else's Empire (eBook, ePUB)

British Illusions and American Hegemony

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

SOMEONE ELSE'S EMPIRE dispels the myth of a 'Global Britain' that punches above its weight in the world. The reality, argues Tom Stevenson, is that Britain lacks even the barest outline of an independent foreign policy. The impetus for so many policy decisions, from Iraq to AUKUS, comes from a supine desire to maintain lieutenant rank in the Washington hierarchy, whatever the consequences.

Nostalgia for global influence has produced a compulsive Atlanticism and a reflexive resort to military actions that the UK is near incapable of actually performing. The net effect of Brexit has been an increase in vassalage. Yet for what must ultimately be psychological reasons, British leaders and national security clerks have tended to dislike seeing Britain framed by American power. Someone Else's Empire looks at the infrastructure of a US world order re-energised by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and fits the UK into the picture without the usual euphemisms. It is one thing to station military forces around the world to maintain your empire, but quite another to do so for someone else's.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781804291504
• Artikelnr.: 69113285

Autorenporträt

Tom Stevenson is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books where he writes about energy, defence and international politics. He has reported from Ukraine, the Middle East and North Africa for the LRB, Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times and the BBC.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Equerry Dreams
1. Eternal Allies
2. Someone Else’s Empire
3. The British Defence Intellectual
4. The Anglo-settler Societies and World History
5. Green Bamboo, Red Snow
II. Instruments of Order
6. The Economic Weapon
7. Keys to the World
8. The Proxy Doctrine
9. On Thermonuclear War
10. Astrostrategy
III. A Prize from Fairyland
11. What Are We There For?
12. The Benefits of Lawlessness
13. In Egypt’s Prisons
14. Successors on the Earth
15. The Revolutionary Decade
16. Kinetic Strikes
Postscript: Reactive Management of the World Empire