Victor Bulmer-Thomas: The U.S. Empire is in Retreat

Nov 9, 2019

Former Chatham House director, Victor Bulmer-Thomas, discusses the decline of the US Empire, its origins, the role of non-state actors, the Latin American migration crisis, the transition to financial and institutional control, the future of NATO, Brexit's relation to empires, and the need for alternative global affairs management.

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Introduction

00:00 • 3min

The Beginnings of the US Empire

03:23 • 8min

Non-State Actors in the US Empire

11:14 • 9min

The US Empire's Expansion and the Migration Crisis in Latin America

20:31 • 3min

Transition of the US Empire: From Territories to Institutions

23:31 • 11min

The Future of NATO and the Possibility of a European Defense Force

34:25 • 3min

The Influence of Empires on Brexit and the Retreat of the US Empire

36:57 • 26min

Former Chatham House director Dr. Victor Bulmer-Thomas discusses his book “Empire in Retreat” which explains that the U.S. became an empire from its very inception and how it developed a new form of semi-global empire through institutions which it used to manage the world (e.g. UN & Bretton Woods). He believes the retreat of U.S. Empire is accelerating under the Trump administration due to inherent internal problems such as a declining economy (e.g. crumbling infrastructure, deteriorating quality of education), social inequality, and a consequent growth of anti-exceptionalism and anti-militarism among its own citizenry.

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About the Guest

Victor Bulmer-Thomas is Associate Fellow in the US and the Americas Programme at Chatham House, Honorary Professor at the Institute of the Americas, University College London and Emeritus Professor of Economics at London University. From 2001 to 2006 he was Director of Chatham House and from 1992 to 1998 he was Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at London University. He edited the Journal of Latin American Studies from 1986 to 1997 and has authored or edited more than 20 books on Latin America and the Caribbean, including The Economic History of Latin America since Independence (3rd edition, 2014) and The Economic History of the Caribbean since the Napoleonic Wars (2012). His new book, Empire in Retreat: the Past, Present and Future of the United States, will be published in March 2018. He is a non-executive director of the JP Morgan Brazil Investment Trust. He has received honours from the governments of Brazil, Colombia and the UK.

*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)