Julian Go
@juliango.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology & Faculty Affiliate, Committee on International Relations & Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, University of Chicago https://voices.uchicago.edu/juliango/
Political science
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Sociology
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Reposted by Silke Roth
I'm looking forward to returning to Glasgow to deliver the 2nd Annual Racial Justice Lecture following Patricia Hill Collins inaugural lecture last year. It’s great that @glasgow.ac.uk is open to discussions of racial justice when in the US it has become a taboo topic.
The conditions for this have been set for a while: growing economic inequality within countries and growing economic multipolarity globally. And I fear Trump 2.0, without worrying about reelection and just interested in smashing and grabbing, is the final trigger. 7/7
I have been fretting about this ever since I started researching and writing about the history of empires (culminating in my 2011 book, Patterns of Empire). And it is keeping me awake at night. Which sucks for me :) 6/7
This is not hyperbole. It is history. It is how the world wars of the 19th century erupted (the Napoleonic wars). It is how WWI and WWII happened (they were really just 1 long world war). And I fear what we have in our future. 5/7
Rival regionalisms form; geopolitical blocs are created and hardened; mercantilist imperial networks replace global free trade. Then the only way the global field can withstand this instability is the final outcome: world war. 4/7
This only serves to do one thing: anger and embolden geopolitical rivals to get more aggressive too. More imperialist machinations by all parties ensue, some subtle or covert, others more open and violent. 3/7