نهاية الإمبراطوريات وعالم مُعاد تشكيله: تاريخ عالمي لإنهاء الاستعمار

A comprehensive history of decolonization, from the decline of empires to the age of globalization. Empires were, until recently, everywhere. It has drawn borders, ignited conflicts, and determined the rules of international politics. With the collapse of empires, there has been a radical reorganization of our world. The process of decolonization developed across and within the territories. Its struggles became international and crossed borders, as they were global campaigns for moral disarmament against colonial injustice, as much as they were local struggles over weapons. In this comprehensive history, Martin Thomas tells the story of decolonization and its intimate connection with globalization. It traces the links between these two transformative processes: the end of formal empires and the acceleration of global integration, the reorganization of markets, cultural exchange, and migration. The End of Empires and a World Remade shows how decolonization profoundly affected the process of globalization in the wake of the collapse of empires. In the second half of the twentieth century, decolonization stimulated new international alliances; It led to divisions and wars. It reshaped North-South dynamics. Globalization promised decolonized states broader access to basic resources, larger networks of influence, and global audiences, but its neoliberal version reinforced economic inequalities and imperialist forms of political and cultural influences. By reviewing these two interconnected historical trajectories across the world, from Latin America to Asia, Thomas shows why conditions were so unfavorable for the newly independent states. Decolonization, along with the two world wars, is the most transformative event in the history of the twentieth century. In his book "The End of Empires and a World Remade"