The US was born in a citizens revolt against British imperial power.

Labeling time in this way echoes China s imperial history.

Chairman Mao s rule combined elements of the Chinese imperial system with Communist totalitarianism.

Iran is a would be imperial power that seeks regional primacy.

The Imperial Service Order was established by King Edward VII in August 1902.

In subsequent Chinese history, the meritocratic ideal was institutionalized by means of the Imperial examination system.

Despite its own high rates of unemployment, hundreds of thousands of people from the Caucasus have jobs in Russian cities.

Britain had an empire on which the sun never set, ruled more than a quarter of humankind, and enjoyed naval supremacy.

What happens when the pull of a country s imperial history meets the constraints of its current international position?

Despite all these epochal changes, Russians cannot accept the loss of their imperial role.

This sense of imperial occupation has transformed the supposed solution to the problem of terror in Afghanistan into the problem itself.

But there are major differences in the relative power resources of imperial Britain and contemporary America.

The weakness of the US and Europe today is an open invitation for Russia to return to its old imperial politics.

A decision by the Japanese government to allow the pre World War II guiding principles of education in Imperial Japan to once again be taught in schools has surprised observers.

But there were major differences in the relative power resources of imperial Britain and contemporary America.

South Korea views this as tantamount to outsourcing China s containment to an unrepentant imperial power.

There was only one change of dynasty in China between 1368 and the end of the imperial era in 1911.

The most important lesson of the new imperial record, then, might be quite different from what its compilers had intended.

Imperial Germany was not threatened by Russian industrial dominance in the way von Moltke feared, and its military calculations also failed.

There is nothing comparable in EU integration, which seems far more like a deliberate choice by an imperial few.

In fact, under the treaty, India forfeited all of the extraterritorial rights and privileges in Tibet that it had inherited from imperial Britain.

Kurmanjan Datka, a rare female ruler in Kyrgyz history, turned a blind eye to her favourite son's execution in order to keep peace with Imperial Russia.

As China s leaders define the country s global role, they should bear in mind the success of the UK s approach as well as the failure of Imperial Germany s arrogant diplomacy.

The Scots have been part of the British state for more than 300 years, at the heart of the Protestant, imperial, adventuring, outward looking culture that forged Britain s identity.

Until the mid 19th century, sedentary Muslim elites were co opted into the imperial aristocracy, just as, in the 20th century, national communist elites were absorbed into the Soviet nomenclatura .

Indeed, on some issues, shades of the old imperial strategy of divide and rule can be seen, with the OSCE pitting one Albanian institution or political party against another.

His motto, Get rich and keep quiet, sounds like Guizot s priorities in mid nineteenth century France, even if it is seasoned with a strong touch of imperial pride.

So, for the foreseeable future, the West will have to deal with a Russia that yearns for its lost imperial power and shapes its foreign policy to this end.

His motto, Get rich and keep quiet, sounds like Guizot s priorities in mid nineteenth century France, even if it is seasoned with a strong touch of imperial pride.

Nationalist and anti colonialist ideologies, supported by growing literacy and political mobilization, have long since made imperial rule virtually impossible.

With the sole exception of Zimbabwe, no leading politician in any post imperial country has made a notable speech in recent years attacking colonialism.

Keating believed that the fighting at Kokoda represented the real birth pains of an independent Australia, not some colonial appendage of Britain created to serve imperial purposes in the Far East.

So, while Russia s modernization and democratization are in Europe s interest, its return to an imperial foreign policy and barely veiled authoritarianism at home is not.

Instead of an expansionist Russian empire confronting Imperial Britain, it is now a China hungry for land, water, and raw materials that is flexing its muscles, encroaching on Himalayan redoubts and directly challenging India.

The response to the return of Russia s imperial great power politics has nothing to do with punishing Russia, and a lot to do with establishing innately Western especially European positions of power.

But it is now clear that the KGB and the military who launched the coup were not defending the idea of communism. Instead, they were protecting their idea of Russia s imperial mission, a notion that had given the Kremlin commissars greater control of the vast Russian empire, and of Russia s neighbors, than any of the Tsars had ever enjoyed.

Instead, they were protecting their idea of Russia s imperial mission, a notion that had given the Kremlin commissars greater control of the vast Russian empire, and of Russia s neighbors, than any of the Tsars had ever enjoyed.

TEL AVIV The old vocation of what Rudyard Kipling called the White Man s Burden the driving idea behind the West s quest for global hegemony from the days of imperial expansion in the nineteenth century to the current, pathetically inconclusive, Libyan intervention has clearly run out of steam.

But although Russia's role in the region has decreased, cooperation with Russia is essential if the Transcaucasian states are to succeed.