Book Review: Daniel Silander and Don Wallace (eds), International Organizations and the Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect: The Humanitarian Crisis in Syria
| DOI | 10.1177/1478929916677894 |
| Date | 01 February 2017 |
| Author | Priyanka Chhetri |
| Published date | 01 February 2017 |
| Subject Matter | Book ReviewsInternational Relations |
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Echoes of Empire: Memory, Identity and
as John Darwin, John M MacKenzie and
Colonial Legacies by Kalypso A Nicholaïdis,
Bernard Porter. Indeed, Darwin’s afterword
Berny Sèbe and Gabrielle Maas (eds). London:
serves to remind us just how far the discipline
I. B. Tauris, 2015. 420pp., £17.99 (p/b), ISBN
of imperial history has travelled (in the right
9781784530518
direction) over the last 40 years, to which
Echoes of Empire is testament.
The well-worn truism – that the presentness of
Given the extensiveness of empire’s imprint,
the past is all around us – has been publicly much more remains to be discovered, a point
resuscitated in light of a recent YouGov survey recently reinforced by the ‘Hanslope disclo-
conducted in mid-January 2016 (which found sure’. For students and scholars alike, this book
that 43% of respondents thought that ‘generally is an impressive addition to a field of enquiry
speaking’ the British Empire was a good thing) with much momentum, much dynamism and
and the ongoing debates around the Rhodes much to reveal about the imperial continuities
Must Fall in Oxford campaign. Echoes of behind globalisation and the contemporary
Empire is a particularly timely contribution in global order for many years to come.
capturing how the present is continuously
informed by an often-inconvenient yet ubiqui-
Helen O’Shea
tous past, and subsequently why its contesta-
(University of Dundee)
tions are relevant. The range of this edited
© The Author(s) 2016
collection – spanning history, literature, politi-
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cal science and international relations – is testa-
DOI: 10.1177/1478929916667030
ment to the vitality of the ever-expanding
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historiography of territorial and transoceanic
imperial legacies and the fruitfulness of inter-
International Organizations and the
disciplinary approaches.
Implementation of the Responsibility to
The...
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