"In a splendid sequel to their book on empires, Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper investigate bold alternatives in Eurasia and Africa to the nation-state form and post-imperial domination by the West. Yet these ambitious schemes foundered on the existing inequities of power and wealth between the former colonizers and the emancipated colonies and the ambitions of elites within existing political units. In this impressive tour d'horizon, Burbank and Cooper remind us that the present has been made not only by pragmatic successes but also by deferred dreams." --Ronald Grigor Suny, author of Stalin: Passage to Revolution "Building on the continued interest in non-national pathways out of empire, Post-Imperial Possibilities brings to bear a wide-ranging and comparative framework that tracks the overlapping and distinctive anti-imperial imaginaries from the Soviet space to West Africa. This is an important resource for specialists and nonspecialists alike that will shape syllabi and future research agendas."-- Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination "As historical realities, Eurasia, Eurafrica, and Afroasia all ended in fiasco, but the analysis in this book proves extremely valuable. Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper expose possibilities of social and political imagination beyond the national and uncover various scales and modes of thinking about diversity and affinity from places and situations we rarely consider. Placing Eurasianism in this comparative context in particular has a revelatory effect.

" --Marina Mogilner, University of Illinois at Chicago "In an age when global inequalities undermine the ability of many nation-states to fulfill their function, Post-Imperial Possibilities reconstructs how thinkers and politicians imagined international order as horizontal transnational polities that bound peoples while respecting their differences. Master historians Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper have written an intellectual history of immense range and wisdom that recovers lost knowledge about urgent alternatives." --Dirk Moses, City University of New York.