* Contents * Preface *1. What Is an Empire? * A brief sketch of the characteristics of empires - World empires and great empires - The compulsion to intervene, neutrality options and the Melian dialogue in Thucydides *2. Empire, Imperialism and Hegemony: a Necessary Distinction * The self-destructive dynamic of capitalism: economic theories of imperialism - The centre-periphery problem - Prestige and great power rivalry: political theories of imperialism - Expansion pressures, marginality advantages and time sovereignty - The tricky distinction between hegemony and empire *3. Steppe Empires, Sea Empires and Global Economies: A Short Typology of Imperial Rule * The formation of empires through military and commercial extraction of surplus product - The two (at least two) sides of empires - Imperial cycles and Augustan thresholds *4. Civilization and Barbarian Frontiers: Tasks and Hallmarks of Imperial Order * Peace as a justification for imperial rule - Imperial missions and the sacredness of empire - The idea of the barbarian and the construction of imperial space - Prosperity as a justification and programme for imperial rule *5. The Defeat of Empires by the Power of the Weak * Forms of imperial overstretch - Political mobilization and military asymmetry: the strategies of anti-imperial players - Cultural identity struggles and terrorism as a strategy for wars of devastation *6. The Surprising Return of Empire in the Post-Imperial Age * Analyses of the end of empire and the problem of post-imperial areas - The United States: the new empire - A democratic empire? - Europe's imperial challenge * Maps * Notes * Bibliography * Acknowledgements
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