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The nineteenth century marked the high point of imperialism, when tsarist Russia expanded to the Pacific and the sun was said never to set on the British Empire. The author explains imperialism through an analysis of the institutions of both the expanding state and its targets of conquest.

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"Innovative, interesting, and important. Leo J. Blanken speaks to one of the oldest issues in international relations - the source of imperial behavior - and does so with a novel and well-written argument that is embedded in a very popular emerging school of research. Rational Empires will be seen as a model of how to employ some of the latest developments in the rational choice literature to international politics." (David M. Edelstein, Georgetown University)"

Rational Empires

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/05/2012
      ISBN13: 9780226056746, 978-0226056746
      ISBN10: 0226056740
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      Colonialism and imperialism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The nineteenth century marked the high point of imperialism, when tsarist Russia expanded to the Pacific and the sun was said never to set on the British Empire. The author explains imperialism through an analysis of the institutions of both the expanding state and its targets of conquest.

      Trade Review
      "Innovative, interesting, and important. Leo J. Blanken speaks to one of the oldest issues in international relations - the source of imperial behavior - and does so with a novel and well-written argument that is embedded in a very popular emerging school of research. Rational Empires will be seen as a model of how to employ some of the latest developments in the rational choice literature to international politics." (David M. Edelstein, Georgetown University)"

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