Much of this is the routine lot of immigrants everywhere, but with a cutting post-imperial edge.
For France, on the other hand, it is a way of enhancing a diminished post-imperial role.
Shouldn't Britain reconcile itself to its post-imperial status as a middling nation, with suitably diminished military aspirations?
Russia's failure fully to acknowledge its past is more than a case of post-imperial twitching in its near-abroad.
But unlike Britain it has never, in its post-imperial state, felt itself to be in search of a role.
In the post-war years various statesmen have sought to define Britain's post-imperial identity.
Yet an understanding of Mahatmanomics is critical to understanding Gandhi and the catastrophically impoverished post-imperial India his legend helped to create.
To this day, Britain's reluctance to plunge into the European endeavour strikes many Europeans as a result of snooty, post-imperial delusions of grandeur.
It was Roth's genius to put a universal theme into a historical novel that retains all its power in our own not-so-post-imperial age.
Learning to live as a post-imperial state according to its means, rather than its ambitions, and learning to show more care for human life and dignity, are more important to Russia's renewal than winning a geopolitical race.
Dmitri Trenin, a retired colonel turned pundit, says Russia should accept that its superpower days are over, and try to join countries such as Britain, France and Germany to become another big post-imperial member of the European club.
Ms Morris praised a scheme at Imperial College, where post-doctorate researchers spend half their time working in local schools and she called for the initiative to be extended.
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