neoimperialism

plural neoimperialisms · alternative neo-imperialism

1. uncountableusuallygovernmentA contemporary form of imperialism; modern imperialistic practices by a country, such as using influence and power to dominate smaller countries.First known use early 20th c.

   In Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Western powers put aside the indirect forms of neo-imperialism and opted for direct colonialism.

   2000, Michael Parenti, “Bosnia: New Colonies”, in To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia, paperback edition, London: Verso, published 2002, →ISBN, page 57

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   [T]he Turkish Government should from now on recognize and act upon the assumption that Russian neo-imperialism is a definite threat to the safety and independence of Turkey.

   1939 November 9 (date written), J. V. A. MacMurray, “Activities of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, and Soviet Relations with the Belligerent Powers: III. Activities of the Soviet Union in the Balkans; the Seizure of Bessarabia: The Ambassador in Turkey (MacMurray) to President [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt”, in Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers: 1940 […] (Department of State Publication; 6818), volume I (General), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, published 1959, →OCLC, page 450

   From the moment this word [Geopolitik] was seized by the Germans, it became the best descriptive term of the guiding philosophy of German neoimperialism.

   1947 fall, Harry A. Sachaklian, “Geopolitics versus Geologistics”, in Air University Quarterly Review, volume I, number 2, Maxwell Field, Ala.: Air University, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 53–54

   [T]he Afro-Asian peoples common basic mission is to continue their present battle against the old and neoimperialisms and to win and secure national independence.

   1963 December 23, “[United Arab Republic] UAR–CPR Joint Communique”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 247, [Washington, D.C.]: Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page B-7

   After World War II, European powers like Britain and France adopted a strategy of neoimperialism. Financially depleted by years of warfare, and facing intensified popular resistance from within the Third World itself, they reluctantly decided that indirect economic hegemony was less costly and politically more expedient than outright colonial rule. […] Furthermore, under neoimperialism the native government takes up the costs of administering the country while the imperialist interests are free to concentrate on accumulating capital, which is all they really want to do.

   1995, Michael Parenti, “Imperialism 101”, in Nancy J[oyce] Peters, editor, Against Empire, San Francisco, Calif.: City Light Books, →ISBN, page 16

   In his 1958 autobiography, he [Edgar Snow] described Marxism as a 'heretical' descendant of Western Judeo-Christianity that was an imperfect fit as an ideology for anti-colonial revolutions in Asia. The old empires were crumbling but were being replaced by neo-imperialisms.

   2023, John Sexton, “Red Star and Paper Tiger”, in Red Friends: Internationalists in China’s Struggle for Liberation, London; Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: Verso, →ISBN, page 150

   Synonyms: colonialism without colonies, informal empire, neocolonialism