The New Ideology of Imperialism: Renewing the Moral Imperative is a book by the Hungarian sociologist Frank Furedi, published by Pluto Press in 1994 (ISBN 0745308465)

Contents

1. Introduction
   1. Contesting legitimacy
   2. Is it nationalism?
   3. The problem of imperial identity
2. A presentiment of danger: the preoccupation with white prestige
   1. The demobilised soldier and the blow to white prestige
   2. An unspecified threat
   3. Problem of control
   4. What did they see?
3. The social construction of the Third World terrorist
   1. Elite perspectives
   2. Nationalism as passion
   3. Nationalists as Nazis
   4. As maladjustment
   5. The marginal man
   6. A moral condemnation
4. From containment to accommodation: the Anglo-American management of African nationalism
   1. Assumptions of superiority
   2. The pragmatism of diplomacy
   3. The management of nationalism, 1948-1960
   4. Towards decolonisation
   5. A changing division of labour
   6. Flattering nationalism
   7. A legacy of moral uncertainties
5. Imperialism on the defensive: the campaign to limit the damage
   1. The imperial ideal in retreat
   2. Fighting a rearguard action
   3. Arguments on empire
   4. Rewriting history
   5. The fatal flaw
   6. Anti-Third World ideology
   7. A call for revenge
6. The moral rehabilitation of imperialism
   1. The intellectual annihilation of Third World nationalism
   2. Redrawing maps
   3. Saving the Third World from itself
   4. Contemporary anti-Third World themes
   5. Reflections on the moral rehabilitation of imperialism

External links

• Frank Furedi

  Official website

• Pluto Press

  Official website