Empires are back, it seems. A form of government that had previously seemed to be receding in the rearview mirror now looms large in the headlines. Russia has justified its ongoing invasion of Ukraine by promising to revive the empire’s past greatness. China’s territorial ambitions are based on similar themes. Even where old empires have fallen, their legacies live on. The British Mandate’s emergency rule in Palestine, for example, is being replicated by Israel’s mobility regime in the West Bank and Gaza. In the United States, foreign relations are undergoing a fundamental break from past decades, as nineteenth-century strategies like tariffs and territorial aggression are returning to favor. This panel brings together experts on empires from the United States, Germany, and Israel. The panelists will compare different modes of continuing or reviving imperial strategies and explain how empires influence our post-imperial world.