David Garcia on Mon, 2 Sep 2019 15:29:35 +0200 (CEST)


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


Yes correct.. exhibit 1. as evidence is that many in the current cabinet serving under 
Johnson contributed to a dubious anthology of post Thatcherite drivel the title 
“Britania Unchained” tells you all you need to know about post imperial arrogance a
nd delusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Unchained

Worth a visit just for the cover..

David Garcia

On 2 Sep 2019, at 14:14, Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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