Great Imperial Hangover

Samir Puri is Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore.Prior to this he was an academic, teaching War Studies at King's College London and laterin the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Earlier in his career heserved in the Foreign Office (2009-15) and worked at RAND (2006-09). He appears on newsprogrammes for Al Jazeera, the BBC, CNBC, Sky and TRT World, and has written forpublications including the Guardian.

• 1: America's Imperial Inheritance 2: Britain's Grandeur and Guilt of Empire 3: The European Union's Post-Imperial Project 4: Russia's Embrace of its Imperial Legacy 5: China's Janus Faces of Empire 6: India's Overcoming of the 'Intimate Enemy' 7: The Middle East's Post-Imperial Instability 8: Africa's Scramble Beyond Colonialism 9: The World's Intersecting Imperial Legacies

Enlightening... [Puri] makes a credible case for how, in the US and China, imperial legacies have left those powers withdifferent values that would be hard to reconcile.