THE BRITISH EMPIRE AS A NATIONAL INSTITUTIONAL IMPERIAL SYSTEM AND ITS STRATEGIES REGARDED PERIPHERIES

Abstract

The paper presents the analysis of the British Empire as a national-institutional imperial system and its strategy towards the peripheries. The article considers the main stages of the spread and establishment of the British imperial domination, imperial territorial system, evolution strategies of imperial policy towards the «white» and the «colored» colonies. The author shows possibilities and advantages of the national-institutional empires choice of strategies in relation to the periphery, from the patriarchal imperial domination emanating from the sacred imperial center, to creating a system of militarypolitical and commercial alliances with the most similar in the terms of cultural and civilizational peripheries, while preserving their dependent position.