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I believe that the attempt by President Putin’s Kremlin to impose “liberal empire” or “sovereign democracy” on the post-Soviet states will fail.
Alternatively (or coincidentally), Russia might discover a new business center of gravity in Central Asia and East Asia, though this would hardly be the “liberal empire” that Anatoli Chubais once envisaged, for it would be based on the mutual attraction of autocrats.
The territorial and economic imperatives of empire will continue to make it difficult for Russia to develop a political system that conforms to Western norms.
The days of empire are over, no matter how much wealth oil and gas is bringing to Russia.
The US does not seek to create an empire in the old sense: America pursues an imperialism of the values that it holds dear.
The Mohamed Ali dynasty’s first six decades in power created an Egyptian empire that stretched from the sources of the Nile in east Africa to the eastern parts of Turkey, including the entire eastern Mediterranean and two-thirds of what is today Saudi Arabia.
But the empire fell when the dreams of the Pasha’s descendants exceeded their state’s resources and capacities.
Wartime inflation destroyed stability in the Russian empire in 1917, as farmers, worried about the declining value of their money, hoarded their output and let the cities starve.
For example, he applied the lessons of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian empire to the break-up of the Soviet bloc.
After all, the Sunni Middle East – led by a Saudi Arabia for which the quest for regional dominance amounts to a struggle for regime survival – will not accept being led by the rising Shia empire, especially if that means clashing head-on with Israel and the US.
But, by the early 1900’s, the empire faced two problems that cast doubt on its ability to fulfill these missions.
The heart of the problem was the 1867 Compromise, which divided the empire into Austrian and Hungarian halves.
Second, due in part to internal nationalist crises, the empire found it increasingly difficult to chart a unified, independent course in international affairs.
These problems inflicted irreparable damage to Austria-Hungary’s image as a “necessity” – both for its subjects, who came to see national self-determination as a superior alternative to supra-nationalism, and for outside powers, which dismembered the empire in 1918.
In the end, many who fought to bring about Austria-Hungary’s demise would live to mourn its passing; as subsequent events would show, the old empire was still more of a necessity than they realized.
Had Cortés’s strategy failed, he would have gone down in history – if he was remembered at all – as an arrogant fool who thought that he could defeat a great empire.
Internally, nearly all of these countries had a very clear idea about what they wanted: democracy, freedom, a market economy, and protection from the return of the Russian empire.
Europe’s inland empire of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland – helmed by mini-strongmen – will stand in firm opposition.
A leading policymaker in the Anglo-American empire of finance actually came out in support of a Tobin tax – a global tax on financial transactions.
Six Million SerfsTEL AVIV: The handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China (barely one month old) went beyond the merely political to become a spectacular pageant, celebrating both the return of a lost territory to the Motherland as well as a symbolic end to what was the world’s most far-flung Empire.
But no empire could ever be held together by military power alone.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, determined to restore by force the sphere of influence once held by the Russian/Soviet empire, has shredded the rules that have ensured peace in Europe – indeed, in much of the world – for three generations.
It is now a quarter-century since the Soviet Union disintegrated; and 2017 will mark the centennial of the Russian Revolution, which toppled the teetering, centuries-old czarist empire.
After all, they were all part of the Soviet empire.
To be sure, Russia does not possess the power and resources to recreate an empire, even within the confines of the abstract “Russian world.”
More moderate postcommunist parties, on the other hand, are in power in Warsaw, Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia, and throughout most of the former Soviet empire.
Stalin was content to settle for an empire in Eastern Europe.
Having lost its empire, Britain retains outsized global influence simply because of the power of its civilization and the education absorbed by its decision-makers.
Skeptics see an empire living on borrowed money and borrowed time.
From the ruins of another empire, Russia's, I would add: There is nothing more conspicuous than an absent monument.
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