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ID144648
Title ProperPost-imperial moment
LanguageENG
AuthorKaplan, Robert D
Summary / Abstract (Note)IN 1935, the anti-Nazi writer and Austrian-Jewish intellectual Joseph Roth published a story, “The Bust of the Emperor,” about an elderly count at the chaotic fringe of the former Habsburg Empire who refused to think of himself as a Pole or an Italian, even though his ancestry encompassed both. In his mind, the only mark of “true nobility” was to be “a man above nationality,” in the Habsburg tradition. “My old home, the Monarchy, alone,” the count says, “was a great mansion with many doors and many chambers, for every condition of men.” Indeed, the horrors of twentieth-century Europe, Roth wrote presciently, had as their backdrop the collapse of empires and the rise of uniethnic states, with Fascist and Communist leaders replacing the power of traditional monarchs.
`In' analytical NoteNational Interest , No.143; May-Jun 2016: p.73-76
Journal SourceNational Interest 2016-05
Key WordsInternational System ;  Post-Imperial Moment ;  Security to the World ;  U.S. Power Projection