Jane Burbank is professor emerita of history and Russian and Slavic studies at New York University. She is the author of Intelligentsia and Revolution and Russian Peasants Go to Court. Frederick Cooper is professor emeritus of history at New York University. He is the author of Citizenship between Empire and Nation, Africa since 1940, and Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference. Burbank and Cooper are coauthors of Empires in World History (Princeton).
""With so much contemporary focus on the global South, [Post-imperial Possibilities] is a welcome reminder that ideals of statehood exported from or heavily influenced by Europeans tell only part of the story of political evolution in Asia and Africa.""---Samir Puri, International Affairs ""Only rarely does a book come along that challenges us to consider whether the current international order, composed of sovereign nation-states, should be taken for granted. . . . [Post-Imperial Possibilities] presents a compelling central argument.""---Natalia Telepneva, H-Net Reviews