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Although empires have shaped the political development of virtually all the states of the modern world, "imperialism" has not figured largely in the mainstream of scholarly literature. This book seeks to account for the imperial phenomenon and to establish its importance as a subject in the study of the theory of world politics. Michael Doyle believes that empires can best be defined as relationships of effective political control imposed by some political societies—those called metropoles—on other political societies—called peripheries. To build an explanation of the birth, life, and death of empires, he starts with an overview and critique of the leading theories of imperialism. Supplementing theoretical analysis with historical description, he considers episodes from the life cycles of empires from the classical and modern world, concentrating on the nineteenth-century scramble for Africa. He describes in detail the slow entanglement of the peripheral societies on the Nile and the Niger with metropolitan power, the survival of independent Ethiopia, Bismarck's manipulation of imperial diplomacy for European ends, the race for imperial possession in the 1880s, and the rapid setting of the imperial sun. Combining a sensitivity to historical detail with a judicious search for general patterns, Empires will engage the attention of social scientists in many disciplines

Peacekeeping, human rights, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have flourished in complementary contrast with each other. Their relationship has reflected the constraints and opportunities provided by three geopolitical eras since World War II. The first (the first Cold War) began in about 1948 and lasted until 1988; the second (the Post-Cold War Liberal Primacy) ran from 1989 to around 2012; finally, since 2012 the world has been threatened with the emergence of a second Cold War.

In this Top Twenty Commentaries section of the Centennial Issues of the journal, Michael Doyle reviews the highly cited article Liberalism and World Politics(1986). The impact of the article is attributed to the short length, & the high quality of the writing that attracted those outside the political science discipline. The important issues addressed in the article are delineated as the resolution of the anomaly that democracies were peaceful with one another, the interdisciplinary approach that distinguished imperial, pacific, & internationalist variants of popular republicanism, the bridging of methodological divides, the provision of a framework for thinking about politics that linked to real world political discourse, & the interest of many international relations scholars. The subsequent scholarship following Doyle's article are asserted to have contributed to new insights on the relative weights of institutional, normative, & material influences, the significance of disputes & armed conflicts, perceptions & realities, & transitional versus established democracies. References. J. Harwell