Someone Else''s Empire - British Illusions and American Hegemony

The destructive delusions of ‘Global Britain’

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

The destructive delusions of 'Global Britain'

Product details

• Authors: Tom Stevenson
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2023
• EAN: 9781804291481
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-148-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Geopolitics, HISTORY / Military / United States, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, Colonialism & imperialism, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, Colonialism and imperialism, Nuclear weapons, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science