Re: <nettime> don't be afraid of 'project fear'

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

An interesting proposition: it's about terminal illusions of grandeur. 
Abstract below, full text at 
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-923X.12739?af=R


> Since 2016, the UK government has outlined plans for ‘Global Britain’
> as a framework for post‐Brexit foreign policy. Some criticise the idea
> as a vision of ‘Empire 2.0’, but it is rarely made clear exactly what
> form it takes or what its wider political implications are. This
> article argues that Global Britain constitutes not just an idea or a
> slogan, but a foreign policy narrative and, more specifically, the
> narrative of empire. Indeed, to appear reasonable its grand ambitions
> require pre‐existing knowledges of past imperial ‘successes’ and
> accepting images of empire among the British public. Yet Global
> Britain lacks efficacy: as a domestic rather than an international
> narrative, by being inherently regressive in its worldview, and for
> contradicting the preferences of international partners on which the
> UK heavily relies. These narrative flaws, it is argued, make Global
> Britain an actively problematic, rather than merely ineffective,
> component of UK foreign policy.

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