Preface / The Traps of the Research Theme of 'Imperialism'

Chapter 1: Overturning the International Order

The power of questions
A ruler who is ruled?
Family or business partners?

Chapter 2 Imperialism is Alive

Flowers and weeds
Insights from The Hunger Games
Empire without colonies
The Empire That Never Sleeps

Chapter 3: The Birth of the Super-Imperial America

Anglo-Saxon Empire
The empire that rules the empire
Imperial Project, LIO

Chapter 4: The Art of Governing the Empire

The Invited Empire
Immortal Psychological Warfare
The heart of the empire
barracks state

Chapter 5: Post-Imperial Era: What is Korea's Path?

Discrepancies between diagnosis and prescription
Imperial Alliance
Peace Strategy
Beyond 'Don Quixote Korea'

Proof of the Empire's Absence? And the Law of Addiction

People often ask, "What kind of empire is the United States without colonies?", but this is a misconception.
The answer lies in the Dominion, which the British Empire had already realized and practiced in the past, when the United States was a 'muscular younger brother' and Britain was a 'strong older brother'.
The idea of ​​indirect rule, which was acquired at the end of colonialism when it reached its limit, was even reflected in the Japanese Empire's plan for the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere before the end of the war.
The question is, rather, whether Anglo-Saxon imperialism actually existed.
The author answers this question by analyzing how the British Empire, through the World Wars, inevitably extended its dream of an "eternal empire" by ceding leadership of the international order to the United States as a compromise, and how it evolved into a super-empire that never existed before.
In fact, Britain and the United States, having won the war, promised a world without empires through the Atlantic Charter (1941), but even before the war, they had already drawn up a blueprint called the "Study on War and Peace" (1939-42) to prepare for an "imperialism without empires" order (the very origin of the "LIO").
In that extension, the then weak Soviet Union was inflated into a giant, giving birth to the Cold War confrontation, and the Anglo-Saxon Empire continuously 'developed' its main enemies in the form of lawless states, rogue states, and the axis of evil, which led to the constant occurrence of large and small wars on Earth.


This is not just a claim made by intellectuals with a critical disposition, who are easily dismissed as being like that.
The author also confirms that this is not a bias of some, using case studies and research results from whistleblowers from various backgrounds and fields, including military, bureaucrats, and journalists in Europe and the United States.
William Broome, who worked at the U.S. State Department and witnessed the invasion of Vietnam, which led him to uncover the dark history of the CIA and the truth about the Chilean coup, or Chalmers Jones, an anti-communist who actively supported the Vietnam and Iraq Wars, who visited Okinawa to investigate the gang rape of a 12-year-old girl and raised the issue of the existence of the massive U.S. military base as a new form of imperialism.
But while Chomsky's research and Snowden's revelations are somewhat well-known, why are these voices so rarely heard? Why has Anglo-Saxon imperialism received so little attention? The answer lies in the governance techniques that only a super-empire capable of governing the entire world can achieve.
The surveillance empire's system makes it difficult to properly recognize its true nature, such as by building a coalition of forces through information and military alliances like the Okus and Five Eyes, and by inducing voluntary cooperation through media and psychological warfare with its vast knowledge and information power.
This is also the reason why the author had to use the abductive method (a social science research methodology that verifies the validity of a proposition using a tailored hypothesis) to prove this.

A New Cold War or Post-Imperialism: What Are Our Choices?

In fact, the biggest victims of the era of imperialism without empires are the former colonial countries.
The world may have changed, but the unjust relationship of dependence between the colonial mother country and the newly independent nation remains essentially unchanged.
In this way, the essence of imperialism continues in a different form, but the fact that the LIO, which is so familiar that it appears natural, rational, and justifiable, has been obscuring or encouraging this unjust reality is gradually gaining acceptance in the international community.
The movement to transform the US-centered unipolar system, which has been supported by the LIO, into a multipolar system, has gained momentum from countries in the Global South, including the BRICS countries.


The reality of ideology cannot help but change depending on one's perspective.
Depending on whether one views the essence of today's international society from the perspective of a "new Cold War" centered around the US-China conflict or from the perspective of "post-imperialism"—the confrontation between a super-imperial camp and those seeking to break it—the United States appears either as an "indispensable superpower" or as a "unilateral empire."
It goes without saying that our future will be greatly influenced by which instrument panel we adjust the rudder of the Korean ship.
Moreover, in the tug-of-war between the two camps, Korea is being pulled by both sides.
The author began writing this book out of a sense of crisis that while the international community was moving forward with the zeitgeist of post-imperialism, Korea was on the wrong path, falling into an imperial alliance and becoming a bodyguard for the Anglo-Saxon empire. He put the basis for this diagnosis into this book. (Therefore, he also published a book titled “The Naked Korea-US Alliance,” arguing that insisting on the Korea-US alliance alone would be like the foolishness of Don Quixote rushing into windmills.) This book reaffirms that we must wake up to our senses in order to avoid repeating the failures of the late Joseon Dynasty, when we were blind to the international situation.