New episode NIOD Rewind Podcast
Published on 25 June 2025
Did European colonialism truly end in the 20th century, as we often assume? Or did its legacies take new forms? In this new NIOD Rewind podcast episode, Anne van Mourik (NIOD) talks to Martin Thomas (University of Exeter), author of The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization (Princeton University Press).
Thomas argues that decolonization was not just the transfer of power from colonizers to the colonized, but a global, often violent process that forged new alliances, reshaped international connections, and left behind enduring colonial legacies. In this episode we ask: How to rethink decolonization? If empires were so powerful, military, politically, economically, why and how did they collapse? And how is colonial violence different than violence in non-imperial spaces?
This podcast episode is created in connection to the book “The End of Empoires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization” by Martin Thomas.
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