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I take a break from telling you how to make your company into an industry power to tell you how to make your nation into a global power. Potayto/Potahto. https://www.martinbihl.com/business-thinking/global-power #globalpower #worldhistory #empires #France #England

📢 Call for Papers: “Responding to Empire”
Join us on 11–13 November 2026 in Freiburg, Germany, for the fourth annual conference of the RTG 2571 Empires. The conference explores how individuals, communities, and institutions responded to imperial structures—by defending, normalising, resisting, or paradoxically navigating empire.
Keynotes: Renate Dürr and Franco De Angelis
Accommodation is covered for speakers; travel bursaries may be available. Please submit a 300–400 word abstract and a short bio by 13 March 2026 to: conference@grk2571.uni-freiburg.de
Further details: https://uni-freiburg.de/empires/annual-conference-2026/

@unifreiburg @dfg_public @empires @mehlera @jabunna @ManuelaBoatca  @sociology @politicalscience @histodons #empires #history #conference #cfp #callforpapers #academia #postimperial #colonialism #decolonial #migration #memory #sociology #politicalscience #academicmastodon

Plakat für die wissenschaftliche Konferenz „Responding to Empire“. Oben sind die Logos des Forschungsverbunds Empires (RTG 2571), der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) und der Universität Freiburg abgebildet.
Titel: „Responding to Empire“.
Vierte Jahreskonferenz der Research Group Empires (Universität Freiburg).
Ort und Datum: 11.–13. November 2026, Freiburg i. Br., Deutschland.
Keynote-Sprecherinnen und -sprecher: Renate Dürr und Franco De Angelis.
Die Konferenz untersucht unterschiedliche Reaktionen auf imperiale Herrschaft, darunter Unterstützung, Normalisierung, Ablehnung, Widerstand sowie ambivalente Positionen. Im Fokus stehen materielle Praktiken wie Arbeit, Migration, Rituale und Objekte sowie epistemologische Fragen der Wissensproduktion, Ideologien und Narrative über Imperien. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt auf zeitlichen Dimensionen, langfristigen Folgen und Erinnerung.
Eingeladen sind Beiträge aus den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, insbesondere Geschichte, Soziologie und Literaturwissenschaft, mit breitem historischen Fokus von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchswissenschaftler werden ausdrücklich ermutigt, Beiträge einzureichen.
Einreichung: Arbeitstitel, Abstract (300–400 Wörter) und kurze biografische Notiz bis zum 13. März 2026 per E-Mail an conference@grk2571.uni-freiburg.de.
Die Unterkunft wird übernommen; Reisekostenzuschüsse sind vorgesehen. Ausgewählte Beiträge sollen nach der Konferenz publiziert werden.

"China’s leaders have spent years preparing for Trump’s return and view the trade war as part of a much larger contest that is likely to last for decades. In the short term, Beijing’s priority is securing the concessions on advanced technology needed to accelerate semiconductor development in China and reduce reliance on imports. In the medium term, it aims to deepen technological capacity, diversify export markets, and capture a larger share of value-added exports in global supply chains to reduce U.S. leverage. In the long run, it intends to build an alternative global trading and financial architecture strong enough to strip the United States of its unilateral sanctioning power. Above all, China wants recognition that its core interests lie beyond even the threat of Western interference—that it has full freedom of action within its sphere of influence, including Taiwan and its regional periphery, and that it can engage economically with the world on terms no less favorable than those accorded to the United States or other great powers.

In essence, China is attempting a geopolitical feat without precedent. It seeks to obtain an equal place alongside the United States without triggering “the Thucydides trap’’—the tendency for rising and established hegemons to come to blows. Unlike earlier revisionist powers, China intends to complete its ascent through the steady accumulation of economic power and influence rather than through military conquest. To succeed, it must not merely draw even with the United States but surpass it in some areas, to the point that any U.S. refusal to acknowledge its superpower status appears absurd to the rest of the world.

As this protracted struggle unfolds, conventional side-by-side comparisons of economic data or military capability are unlikely to provide a clear indication of which side is ahead, which is slipping behind, and why."
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas-long-economic-war-zongyuan-zoe-liu#
#China #EconomicWar #USA #Empires #Imperialism #Superpowers #PoliticalEconomy

...#global comrades can help #boycottusa and #boycottuk in more ways than refusing to purchase their #goods, #machinery, and weapons.
#refuse also to work with them, interpret for them, or provide #services of any kind...especially #corporate heads, #companies, and #political or #military personnel. push also for the closures of all #uspol and #ukpol embassies, bases, operational and #manufacturing assets ect...

..#liberation from #empires requires unified support for a globalized #intifada...

@evan

Why Empires Fall by John Rapley & Peter Heather, 2023

Rome, America and the Future of the West

What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist, both experts in their field, investigate. Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet.

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#nonfiction
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#America

Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline.
This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to disintegration - a fact that is more than a strange historical coincidence. In Why Empires Fall, historian Peter Heather and political economist John Rapley use this Roman past to think anew about the contemporary West, its state of crisis, and what paths we could take out of it. In this exceptional, transformative intervention, Heather and Rapley explore the uncanny parallels - and productive differences - between the two cases, moving beyond the familiar tropes of invading barbarians and civilizational decay to learn new lessons from ancient history. From 399 to 1999, the life cycles of empires, they argue, sow the seeds of their inevitable destruction. The era of western global domination has reached its end - so what comes next?

@evan

European Empires From Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960 by V.G. Kiernan, 2024

New edition of a trail-blazing history of imperial warfare

Victor Kiernan offers a ground-breaking, truly global history of the violence of empire. European Empires from Conquest to Collapse deftly surveys the fighting forces and military engagements of the Great Powers, from the British in India to the scramble for Africa.

#books
#nonfiction
#history
#empires
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#colonialism

With an acerbic wit, Kiernan unpicks the doctrines and realities of colonial warfare. Europe was fond of parading its concept of ‘civilized war’, he observes, but almost everything could be tolerated if it was deemed necessary for the upholding of prestige. Guerrilla insurgency, he adds, ultimately became one of the most sophisticated branches of the art of war.
Of all the reasons for an interest in the colonial wars of modern times, Kiernan argues, the best is that they are still going on, openly or disguised. European Empires from Conquest to Collapse is a landmark attempt to see clearly what empire entailed, instead of resting content with legend or fantasy.
With a foreword by Tariq Ali, author of Winston His Times, His Crimes and The Forty-Year War in A Chronicle Foretold .

The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest Empire in History by Thomas J. Craughwell, 2010

How Genghis Khan's Mongols Almost Conquered the World

Emerging out of the vast steppe grasslands of Central Asia in the early 1200s, the Mongols, under their ferocious leader, Genghis Khan, quickly carved out an empire that by the late thirteenth century covered almost one-sixth of the Earth's landmass from Eastern Europe to the eastern shore of Asia.

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#Mongols

It encompassed 110 million people. Far larger than the much more famous domains of Alexander the Great and ancient Rome, it has since been surpassed in overall size and reach only by the British Empire. The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest Empire in the World recounts the spectacularly rapid expansion and dramatic decline of the Mongol realm, while examining its real, widespread, and enduring influence on countless communities from the Danube River to the Pacific Ocean.

Reminder: On 5 December 2025, 2–4 PM (c.t.), Dr Margret Frenz will give a lecture on “A Part, and Apart. Transcontinental Lives in Imperial Times” in Lecture Hall 1010 (KG I), University of Freiburg.

Dr Frenz is a transnational and imperial historian whose work explores migration, memory, and colonial entanglements. She currently coordinates restitution and colonial-provenance matters at the Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts Baden-Württemberg. @mwk_bw

All are warmly invited – no registration required.

@unifreiburg @dfg_public @empires @mehlera @jabunna @ManuelaBoatca @histodons @sociology @politicalscience #empires #history #colonialism #decolonial #migration #memory #histodons #academicmastodon #politicalscience #sociology

🚀 Now open for applications! 🚀

The DFG Research Training Group 2571 “Empires. Dynamic Change, Temporality and Post-Imperial Orders” at @unifreiburg is recruiting four three-year PhD positions (65%, TV-L E13), starting on 1 May 2026.

🗓 Application deadline: 31 December 2025
📍 Location: Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Full call and details: https://uni-freiburg.de/empires/jobs-and-opportunities/

@empires @dfg_public @mehlera @jabunna @ManuelaBoatca @histodons @fs_islamwissenschaft @sociology @politicalscience #empires #phd #phdpositions #politicalscience #history #histodons #decolonial #academicmastodon #callforapplications

🏺 Before missiles, there were blades — and before nations, empires.

The ancient arms trade turned war into business, and business into power. ⚔️💰

#History #Empires #Brewminate

https://brewminate.com/arms-and-empires-the-trade-and-commerce-of-weapons-in-the-ancient-world/

Join us for the next talk in our RTG 2571 “Empires” Ringvorlesung, Temporality of Imperial Violence.

🗓️ 6 November 2025, 18:00–20:00, HS 1015 (KG I).

Professor Elahe Haschemi Yekani (HU Berlin): “Archival Poetics: Containing Affects of Un/Belonging in British Memorial Culture.” Language: English. Bring your questions—discussion welcome.
@empires @unifreiburg @dfg_public @mehlera @jabunna @ManuelaBoatca @histodons @HistoMartin @teresa_mayer @ElenLeFoll @sociology @politicalscience

#empires #imperialviolence #slowviolence #colonialism #postcolonial #decolonial #powerdynamics #histodons #history #academicmastodon #histodon #empire #literarystudies

Empires come and go – England, France for example – but one thing remains constant amidst the hurly-burly of global power grabs. Some thoughts on what that “one thing” actually is. https://www.martinbihl.com/business-thinking/global-power #globalpower #worldhistory #empires #France #England

What If Wednesday ~ #AsemicMap of #CollapsedEmpires

The steadfastness of human behaviour means new terminology covers group behaviour of social action in a wide range of circumstances, that has occurred in the past. Looking at historical records, and going beyond cultural and historical differences, and patterns emerge.

#Art #AbstractMaps #AbstractSpaces #AmericanPolitics #Asemic #AsemicArt #Maps #AsemicText #AsemicWriting #Collage #CollageArt #DigitalArt #History #AmericaLast #Empires #WorldHistory #TheAmericanEmpire #AmericanEmpire #TheSevenStagesOfCollapsingEmpires

https://impliedspaces.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/asemic-map-of-collapsed-empires/

🌍 Guest Lecture Alert!
Join us on 5 December 2025 (2–4 PM, Lecture Hall 1010, KG I) for a talk by Dr Margret Frenz (Oxford/Stuttgart):
“A Part, And Apart. Transcontinental Lives in Imperial Times.”

Discover how migration, memory, and colonial entanglements shaped lives across empires — and join the discussion! ✨

All are warmly welcome.

@empires @unifreiburg @dfg_public @mehlera @jabunna @ManuelaBoatca @histodons @sociology @politicalscience @teresa_mayer @HistoMartin @elenahuels #empires #histodons #history #decolonial #academicmastodon

🚀 Exciting Opportunity Alert! 🚀
In early November, we will publish the official job postings for four new PhD positions that start on 1 May 2026.
We are especially looking for scholars who examine empires from a temporality perspective.

💡 Don’t miss out – keep an eye on our feed and hit “Follow” so you’re the first to see the details when they drop.

🔔 Stay updated!

@empires @unifreiburg @dfg_public @mehlera @jabunna @ManuelaBoatca @histodons @fs_islamwissenschaft @sociology @politicalscience #empires #histodons #history #decolonial #academicmastodon
👀 Your PhD adventure starts here—watch this space!

HISTORICAL 🏛️ COWS 🐮 These metaphors are meant to be humorous and exaggerated, not precise definitions. They poke fun at the quirks and contradictions of each system. #government #humor #philosophy #society #errtlings #irony #satire #bookcafe #art_of_review #politics #empires #history

#EMPIRES ___ L'art saigne du cœur des empires.

Mais il en a besoin pour être doté de sang. https://wikitractatus.ourednik.info/empires

The value of envisioning the worst-case of climate disruption

"The fact that there's a small number of companies that make an enormous amount of profit off endangering us and our future, and that actively, historically covered up that information, that should have a lot of people very pissed off." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-20/climate-fatalism-in-wake-of-climate-risk-report/105780598

Davidson, J. P. L., & Kemp, L. (2024). Climate catastrophe: The value of envisioning the worst-case scenarios of climate change. WIREs Climate Change, 15(2), e871. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.871
#FossilFuels #climate #ClimateDisruption #FossilFuelIndustry #collapse #narrative #inequality #hierarchy #empires #growth #SocietalCollapses #MilitaryIndustrialComplexes #governance #StateOfEmergency #StompReflex #extinction #ClimateAction

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