The Limits of Legal Imperialism

That is the paradox of imperialism.

We are tired of American imperialism.

His statue, therefore, was considered to be a symbol of imperialism and colonialism.

Their pseudo scientific rhetoric serves as justification for America's imperialist foreign policy.

This is one of the signs of weakness and the impending doom of imperialism.

It can no longer declare ideas of imperialism or fierce capitalism .

Devotees of the New Imperialism would say, Don't to be so literal.

Jeans, which are popular in South Korea, were seen as a symbol of American imperialism in the North.

More alarmingly, some commentators liken Turkey s neighborhood policy to a revival of Ottoman imperialism.

What about British imperialism?!?! the apologists cry, as if the crimes of my ancestors justify the crimes of your ancestors.

Israel is regarded in the Middle East, as well as by many people in the West, as a colony led by white people (even though many prominent Israelis have their roots in Teheran, Fez, or Baghdad).

As was true of Apartheid era South Africa, Israel reminds people of the sins of Western imperialism.

Finally, there is the military option, which would merely justify fears in Sudan of Western imperialism.

But broad international support will not be forthcoming if military operations are perceived as some form of Western neo imperialism.

The Chinese Communist Party, after taking control of China in 1949, did attempt to unite with their oppressed African brothers against Western imperialism.

After years of relying on America s presence in the region, playing an advantageous waiting game, China s next leaders may embrace a more active role. And, because China s reputation in the region is untainted by a legacy of imperialism, they may be in a rather advantageous position to do so.

Some observers conflate the concept with imperialism but the US is clear evidence that a hegemon does not have to have a formal empire.

And, because China s reputation in the region is untainted by a legacy of imperialism, they may be in a rather advantageous position to do so.

Could there be a better place to do business, build stadiums and skyscrapers, or sell information technology and media networks than a country without independent trade unions or any form of organized protest that could lower profits? Meanwhile, concern for human or civic rights is denigrated as outmoded, or an arrogant expression of Western imperialism.

Those who argue that Americanization is a virulent form of cultural imperialism'' apparently see it as a product of growing market domination by American media concerns.

Meanwhile, concern for human or civic rights is denigrated as outmoded, or an arrogant expression of Western imperialism.

India s proportion of global GDP stood at 25 in 1750, but slumped to 1.6 in 1900, at the high noon of imperialism.

We need to look with more nuance at the forward march of American culture instead of demonizing it as a form of crude imperialism or merely celebrating its liberating potential.

Jeans were seen as a symbol of American imperialism and girls caught wearing them would have holes punctured in them to keep them from being worn again.

The stereotype of the helpless Muslim woman, devoid of her own agency and oppressed by her faith, is used by liberals and conservatives alike.

During the Meiji Restoration, Japan searched broadly for tools and innovations that would allow it to become a major power rather than a victim of Western imperialism.

Americanization is not a form of cultural imperialism, but the embodiment of modernity's promise of painless self realization for each individual, in contrast to the demands made by more traditional concepts of emancipation.

In the short run, they can be used to fuel anti imperialist movements. Ultimately, they are obstacles to the construction of socialism.

Of course, technology transfer from China and India could be a mere smokescreen for a new brown imperialism aimed at exploiting African oil, food, and minerals.

Unfortunately, Japan moved onto militaristic imperialism in the 1930 s, which eventually led to its surrender and occupation in 1945.

Once, the votaries of one kind of new international order or another decried the evils of imperialism (sometimes, but not always, prefixed with a neo '') in justifying demands for a more just dispensation.

A forceful revival of Russian imperialism, or a war of civilizations with the Muslim world, might provide a threat so overbearing that a frightened Europe would resume its Cold War dependency on America.

As long as the colonized are under the imperial cosh, they can never truly be ready, because the authority to run their own affairs, responsibly or not, was taken away from them.

Today s real problems are vastly different from when colonial empires held sway, and they need to be dealt with in a non imperialist fashion.

I know no other Cuba than that which was blockaded (although the term is a misnomer, this is what I was taught), the one constructed in opposition to those northern imperialist gentlemen.

A strong believer in British imperialism, his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), which the company named after him in 1895.

The idealism of Japanese intellectuals in the 1930 s and early 1940 s was partly responsible for Japan s catastrophic war to liberate Asia from Western imperialism.

The US must renounce the imperialism of the dollar, and Germany must abandon its dream of a deutscheuro, managed as if the other 16 euro members were historical and cultural extensions of the German nation.

The US is certainly not an empire in the way we think of the European empires of the 19th and 20th centuries, because the core feature of that imperialism was political power.

Japan s leaders must recognize that the mindlessness with which they still treat the sensitivities of societies that suffered from Japanese imperialism in the twentieth century is as morally deaf as it is strategically damaging.

Under Mao, when the Chinese Communist Party sought accommodation, diplomatic recognition, and overseas development aid from Japan, Chinese were not allowed to confront their past victimization at the hands of Western and Japanese imperialism.

The current crisis in the Caucasus does not mark the return of the Cold War, nor is it likely to mark the start of open warfare between Russia and the West it is, more simply, the return of the traditional imperialism practiced by the Russian Empire more than a century ago.