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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

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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.

▪️

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

  continue reading

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