@article{1437184,
      note = {Includes index.},
      author = {Horesh, Niv.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1437184},
      title = {Empires in world history : commonality, divergence and  contingency /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      abstract = {This study focuses on Empires, from an economic historical  perspective. In doing so, it relates current debates in  international relations (IR) and politics to the vexed  legacy of empires in the past. The book includes analyses  of the comparative scholarly literature on Empire in  Antiquity, and Empire in the Early Modern and Modern Ages,  asking the question if the United Sates is an Empire, and  if China is an emerging Empire. It contributes to the field  given its interdisciplinarity, bringing together both  historical and IR insights into world systems in times  past. In addition, it draws out four key points of  separateness between pre-modern and modern empires, and  emphases specific economic data. Further to that, the book  advances the notion of the emergence of empires from within  in the 21st century, that is nation-states becoming more  multi-ethnic while often stepping back from globalization.  And finally it offers future scenarios for the evolution of  empires in a Schumpeterian post-industrial world. Niv  Horesh is a China specialist with over 20 years of  experience ranging across the private sector, public  service and academe. Over the course of his academic  career, Niv has held teaching and research positions at  Hebrew University, China Agricultural University, the  University of New South Wales, and the University of  Nottingham (UK). Nivs research incorporates four main  strands in the following order: Chinese History, World  Monetary History, PRC Political Economy, and PRC Foreign  Policy with emphasis on the Middle East.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1540-5},
      recid = {1437184},
      pages = {1 online resource (140 pages)},
      address = {Singapore :},
      year = {2021},
}