Explicit

Decolonising our reading lists
Explicit

Official Positions © by Davis Ellison

Episode notes

The good, the bad, and the ugly of our security studies reading lists....

From the episode:

The meta-writers:

  • Empires Without Imperialism: Anglo-American Decline and the Politics of Deflection by Jeanne Morefield
  • How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
  • The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States by Matthew Specter

The bad:

  • Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson
  • The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff
  • The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century by Robert D. Kaplan
  • Colonialism: A Moral Rec ... 
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