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The study of imperialism often confronts us as a purely historical exercise. The prevailing discourse of our time is that imperialism has become an historical relic, a phenomenon that does not intrude into the workings of contemporary politics. With the formal process of European decolonisation in the 20th century, there is every reason to think that this is the case. Indeed, there is a substantial literature on the End of Empire across the disciplines.1 It would seem quite reasonable then to imagine that imperialism has been consigned to the dustbin of history; however, recent developments in International Relations and International Political Economy contend that a new phenomenon has emerged, that of the “New Imperialism”.
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Sutton, A. (2015). Introduction. In: The Political Economy of Imperial Relations. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137373984_1
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