Thomas Barfield is senior contributing author and editor on both classic and contemporary political cultures, modality of global governance, ethnography, and anthropology. Barfield’s thoughts and studies have published in diverse platforms and journals and his lectures have been globally recognized. He led ethnographic studies in Xinjiang, China, post-soviet Central Asia, particularly Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan with a focus on political economy and cultures. Barfield received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2006 and he is the editor of Blackwell’s Dictionary of Anthropology. Barfield’s series of articles published by the sentinel post.org on the U.S. Vs. E.U., China and Russia political orders is based on his forthcoming book (December 2023) shadow empires: an alternative imperial history, discusses how the legacy of imperial powers continues to impact world politics today.