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Ep 160: Thomas Barfield on Empire and Imperial Strategies Today
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Thomas Barfield, Professor and Chairman of the Anthropology Department at Boston University and author of Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History, joins the show to discuss empire.
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• 01:15 Introduction
• 03:20 Understanding Afghanistan
• 05:15 Classifying empires
• 09:59 Failures and features
• 12:24 Borders
• 15:30 Exogenous empires
• 21:36 Brits and Athenians
• 26:40 Vulture empires
• 32:21 Taking responsibility
• 37:15 Empires of nostalgia
• 44:50 Vacuum empires
• 51:05 American/Athenian policy
• 54:53 China and empire today
Follow along on Instagram or YouTube @SchoolofWarPodcast
Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack
212 episodes
Manage episode 452049501 series 2998419
Thomas Barfield, Professor and Chairman of the Anthropology Department at Boston University and author of Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History, joins the show to discuss empire.
▪️
Times
• 01:15 Introduction
• 03:20 Understanding Afghanistan
• 05:15 Classifying empires
• 09:59 Failures and features
• 12:24 Borders
• 15:30 Exogenous empires
• 21:36 Brits and Athenians
• 26:40 Vulture empires
• 32:21 Taking responsibility
• 37:15 Empires of nostalgia
• 44:50 Vacuum empires
• 51:05 American/Athenian policy
• 54:53 China and empire today
Follow along on Instagram or YouTube @SchoolofWarPodcast
Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack
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