E.V. From ‘Greater’ to ‘Global Britain’: The New and the Old in the Foreign Policy of the United Kingdom by E. V. Khakhalkina

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The Small Wars Doctrine of the US Marine Corps and Colonial Experience of the European Powers by S. G. Malkin

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Questioning Agency Through Intergenerational Dialogue: The Adult Ghosts and the Forgetting Children in Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill by Hera Kim

“…From its initial publication, Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill has been regarded as children’s literature and Kipling’s imperialism—how he teaches and justifies British Empire’s imperial ideology—has been the main issue for critics in children’s literature studies. …”
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Memory and history of the Great(er) War and India: from a national-imperial to a more global perspective by Thierry DI COSTANZO

“…We submit that studying the war in relation to the contribution of the colonial empires, particularly the British Empire in India is of crucial importance in understanding the post-war world, the anti-colonial movement, the stability of the British Empire in Asia and the international relations of the sub-continent.…”
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‘Splendid Little Soldiers’—Invasion, Empire and the Fantasy of Dominance in Saki’s When William Came by Petra Rau

“…Saki radically disrupts the English fantasy of dominance and imagines the end of the British Empire culminating not just in a German invasion but in a lasting occupation of England. …”
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The oppression concept based on Soyinka's a Dance of the Forests by Malek Awfi Jassim

“…It also accentuates the ideological confrontation between colonized countries and the British Empire to explore the negative impact of the Western hegemony on the colonized minorities in those countries. …”
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« Comme à l’époque de Suzie Wong ». Les mutations du red-light district de Wan Chai by Nicolas Paris

“…The exotic novel, The World of Suzie Wong, and its many adaptations immortalized the red-light district of Wan Chai, Hong Kong with its American sailors, British Empire expatriates and Hong Kong prostitutes in the late 1950s. …”
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Masonic Ritual and the Display of Empire in 19th-Century India and Beyond by Simon Deschamps

“…This article aims at exploring the role played by Freemasonry in displaying, promoting and celebrating the British Empire. It argues that Masonic lodges held centre stage in the Indian colonial public sphere. …”
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Genealogies of African Nationalism and the Idea of Africa by Bongani Ngqulunga

“…By focusing on this idea at the heart of the African nationalist political tradition, the paper challenges scholarship that often dismisses early African nationalists as conservative, influenced by their experiences in mission communities, or by an eagerness to become loyal subjects of the British Empire. …”
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Maître ou esclave ? Jazz, ragtime et cake walk en Allemagne avant et après la Première Guerre mondiale by Pascale Cohen-Avenel

“…The novelty is rather geopolitical: in 1903, Wilhelm II’s Reich is a major colonial power, whose economic domination is about to outgrow the British Empire. In 1919, however, Germany is defeated, and the new-born Republic has no colonies left. …”
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The Agrarian Question in the Views and Activities of Mahatma Gandhi by Joanna Maj

“…The British Empire’s expansive colonial policies consistently pursued in the Indian subcontinent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to the shaking of traditional socioeconomic relations. …”
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Britannia : Grandeur et infortune d’une allégorie nationale dans l’univers du cartoon britannique 1842-1999 by Gilbert Millat

“…Britannia, sometimes accompanied by the emblematic British Lion, has long been personifying justice, liberty, and the British Empire on coins and stamps as well as in graphic satire. …”
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Postcolonial analysis of educational language policies of Ireland, Singapore, and Malaysia by Zuzanna Grala

“…The aspects of language policing strategies are presented as a way of protecting linguistic human rights, but also as a way of dealing with the aftermaths of the policies implemented by the British Empire. Similarities and distinctions in the language policies of Ireland, Singapore, and Malaysia prove that the weak position of native languages originates not in the “natural” decline of a language, but rather in the policy of promoting English by the colonial forces. …”
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The Ambivalent Representation of the Orient in T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (1935) by Sonia Lamrani

“…The literary output that was produced during the rise of the British Empire often reflected the imperialist spirit that dominated the world at that time. …”
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Conflicting Visions of War: Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling’s Evocation of the Boer War by Laïli Dor

“…Kipling, on the contrary, saw them as treacherous guerrillas who deserved due punishment, and he heavily emphasized the threat they represented to the British Empire. The purpose of this article is to analyse these conflicting accounts of a single event, taking into account the authors’ experiences and the readership they were writing for, in order to show how ideological discourse is elaborated through the rhetorical use of historical facts.…”
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Dans les marges de l’orientalisme britannique : le cas d’Isabella Bird et de Journeys to Persia and Kurdestan (1891) by Laurence Chamlou

“…By turning her attention to Persia, she placed herself on the margins of the British Empire, at the heart of the Great Strategic Game between Russia and the United Kingdom. …”
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The Happy Warrior: Winston Churchill and the Representation of War, 1895–1901 by Antoine Capet

“…Most people today only remember his massive role in the British war effort during the Second World War, but in fact he was an active participant in more distant conflicts—as frontline observer or combatant—as early as 1895, when he used his parents’ connections in high places to obtain permission to go to Cuba, where a war of independence was taking place. The British Empire of course provided ample scope for military adventure, and once again young Churchill had all possible strings pulled for him in order to allow him to join the peace-keeping (in the sense of Pax Britannica) operations on the North-West frontier of India, in the Sudan (where he famously participated in the last cavalry charge in British history) and finally in South Africa, where his daring escape from his Boer prison in 1900 made him a world-wide celebrity. …”
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Dickens in Arabia: Going Astray in Tripoli by Gillian PIGGOTT

“…Was Dickens himself, who lived and worked at the heart of the British Empire, inextricably caught up, physically and imaginatively, with the Orient?…”
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INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING OF GREAT BRITAIN IN A GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT by Vitaliy Tereshchuk

“…It was revealed that the BBC World Service in different periods of its existence practised different models of broadcasting, realizing their inherent goals — colonial broadcasting (maintaining the unity of the British Empire), counter-propaganda in the interwar period and the period of the Second World War (countering informational influence alienation of Nazi Germany and the USSR), propaganda during the Second World War (formation of favourable public opinion regarding the activities of the anti-Hitler coalition) and the Cold War (anti-communist propaganda), in the times of the bipolar and post-bipolar world — positioning itself as a "surrogate" media that provides truthful news in countries where access to independent sources of information is limited by political regimes. …”
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AMERICA IN THE WORLD AFTER HEGEMONY by A. Y. Borisov

“…The author makes a comparative analysis between the dawn of the British Empire and current stage of crisis development of the United States with principal issue of transformation of the world order from unipolarity to multipolarity or from single power dominance to a more balanced international system. …”
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