why doesent the british commanwealth of nations become the empire again ?

Question

the commanwealth is the empire but a democratic version of it,britain is weak now,when britain had the empire they were unstopable.countrys like india,australia,canada and like another 48 more.

Answer 1

1. Because it would be immoral. Empires are inherently immoral things. The political "authority" that Britain has over some members of the Commonwealth is limited and very rarely used. For it to assert some new political and military authority over its former colonies would be a subversion of democracy, and most of its holdings are democratic places, after all.

2. Hard power is generally less relevant today than it was sixty years ago. Soft power is more useful in most circumstances. The UK still has plenty of soft power, partly thanks to the Commonwealth, but much of it integral. Through the mechanism of the European Union, the UK's ability to project soft power is greatly enhanced (provided that it is working in conjunction with the other European powers). As a collective actor, the EU has enormous global influence.

3. The Empire was never unstoppable. Just consider examples since 1900:
* The UK was nearly starved by the Germans in WWI.
* The UK was nearly defeated by the Nazis in WWII. They did not expect to be able to repel a German invasion in 1940, and although they prevailed in the air battles against the Luftwaffe, they were really only spared when the Nazis turned the bulk of their attention to the Soviet Union.
* The UK was fought to a standstill against the IRA in Ireland.
* The UK was unable to maintain its hold on India in the face of massive non-violent resistance.

The United Kingdom remains a powerful state, and a respected one. However, its imperial days are over; the building of empires is held, except by some neo-conservative thinkers, to be an impossible and impermissable enterprise.

Answer 2

Departure of their major "jewel in the crown", India, precipitated the collapse of worldwide British imperialism. Weakened by WW2, the British could not prevent it.

Similarly, it was the weakening of Britain by WW1 that made possible the secession of Ireland from Britain's rule around 1922, followed eventually by their departure from the Commonwealth.

As an American, I take pride in the honorable history of US relationships with countries that might have been made colonies. The US relinquished control over the Phillipines without bloodshed. Cuba, taken from Spain, was set up as an independent state.

These honorable behaviors help take away some of the sting of America's mistakes such as Vietnam, Iraq, and the seizure by force of one third of Mexico. America is not perfect nor always right but I think America stacks up pretty well when compared with the British and other colonial imperialists.

Best of all, consider China. There was a time when all the colonial powers of Europe carved out their "spheres of influence" in China. Alone among the great trading nations, the US declined to be part of this power grab.

The former British Empire first became the British Commonwealth of Nations and then finally simply the Commonwealth. Britain no longer has the ability to dominate an Empire or even to dominate the Commonwealth. Today the Commowelath seems to be basically a trade consortium along the lines of NAFTA.

Answer 3

Well, for one India could kick the sh!t out of England now. India has a billion people and nukes. Plus, do you really think any nation is going to just submit to British rule? The British empire was far from unstoppable. Perhaps you forgot about the American Revolution or the War of 1812. They also had a pretty tough time with the Boers, even though they eventually won after they started sticking every Boer in a concentration camp.

Answer 4

HA! The British empire would not stand of undertaking, our GDP in keeping with citizen is around 50,000. Yours could be a touch bigger. yet you have much less then a 10th of the inhabitants, you could see how this would bypass incorrect quickly. As our protection funds blows yours out of the water, we could blow up england some hundred circumstances until now you could blow us up two times. initiate living sooner or later! even nevertheless your forex is surprising our continues to be good. usa and England arnt enemys anymore they havnt been by way of fact the conflict of 1812 learn history bro and stop trolling. If I joined the marines or military and that i became given orders to attack England and that i did no longer discover it justifiable. i'd rebellion. There are quite often good human beings in England. and you're making them look undesirable. So stop and advance up. And Canada won independence! they do no longer pay no longer something tawards england their on the a treaty checklist this is it. i'm going to be giggling while the euro economic equipment crashes and Canada and the US is and australlia could grant help to you. So stop speaking sh*t usa overpowers England.

Answer 5

t would be too costly.
The reasons and the reasoning behind a Commonwealth instead of an empire was in fact the cost of occupying by the military and coercion of the populaces by them proved uneconomical to sustain and inefficient to boot.
England's Empire so costly that not one country was bringing the nation as a whole as much as it was costing its peoples.
With the possible perception of Canada that is and why today Canada is somewhat special in the Commonwealth nations.
By handling just the monetary dealings and raking in a percentage the returns to government and its financial assets banks etc. while leaving for the most part the business to fend for its own using its own business acumen to succeed or fail.

Answer 6

They weren't unstoppable. They're not an empire anymore, airgo they were stopped.