Post-Imperial Possibilities av Jane Burbank, Frederick Cooper

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<p><b>A history of three transnational political projects designed to overcome the inequities of imperialism</b><br><br>After the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally, and economically? In <i>Post-Imperial Possibilities</i>, historians Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper examine three large-scale, transcontinental projects aimed at bringing together peoples of different regions to mitigate imperial legacies of inequality. Eurasia, Eurafrica, and Afroasia¿in theory if not in practice¿offered alternative routes out of empire.<br><br>The theory of Eurasianism was developed after the collapse of imperial Russia by exiled intellectuals alienated by both Western imperialism and communism. Eurafrica began as a design for collaborative European exploitation of Africa but was transformed in the 1940s and 1950s into a project to include France¿s African territories in plans for European integration. The Afroasian movement wanted to repla