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SUMMARY:Beyond the Wilsonian Moment – Empire and order in world history 
 - Peter Fibiger Bang\, University of Copenhagen
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CONTACT:Dr Ayse Zarakol
DESCRIPTION:It used to be said that empire was a thing of the past. No one
  can really believe that anymore - with a Russian war of expansion in the 
 Ukraine\, a globally more assertive China and even the current American pr
 esident contemplating territorial expansion. International relations have 
 responded by turning to “hierarchy” as a theoretical concept to tackle
  this problem. This paper\, however\, argues that we need to go all the wa
 y. Empire cannot be avoided\, but is a powerful concept to study order amo
 ng states. It is not so much empire that has disappeared\, that is the cla
 im of this paper\, as it is Western Europe that has ceased as the centre o
 f imperial power. When President Wilson announced in 1918 that “the days
  of empire and conquest” were over\, a wave of decolonization followed i
 n the wake of the end of both World War 1 and World War 2. And that used t
 o be taken as the meaning of the “Wilsonian Moment”. What this paper a
 rgues instead\, is that the Wilsonian moment gave birth to a series of glo
 bal\, ostentatiously anti-colonialist\, but in fact no less imperial power
 s. We need a more long-duree perspective to understand this development. T
 he paper will end by suggesting to resurrect the notion of a succession of
  imperial regimes\, going right back to antiquity\, to better  grasp the q
 uestion of world order.\n
LOCATION:Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site)\, Room S2
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