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The book Sentimental Imperialists: The American Experience in East Asia (1981, co-authored with James Thomson and Peter W. Stanley) recounts the American experience of East Asia, from approximately 1784 until the fall of Saigon in 1975, [4] discerning four major underlying patterns: competitive nationalism, mutual ethnocentrism, multilateral ...
In Asia, World War I and World War II were played out as struggles among several key imperial powers, with conflicts involving the European powers along with Russia and the rising American and Japanese. None of the colonial powers, however, possessed the resources to withstand the strains of both World Wars and maintain their direct rule in Asia.
For example, while there are American military bases around the world, the American soldiers do not rule over the local people, and the United States government does not send out governors or permanent settlers like all the historic empires did. [220] Harvard historian Charles S. Maier has examined the America-as-Empire issue at length. He says ...
Now Americans, Germans, Chinese and Soviet Russians throw themselves into the power vacuum of Central Asia, to many theorists the heartland of the world, and riddled with symbolism. Historian David Noack writes that the Great Game resumed from 1919 to 1933 as a conflict between Britain and the Soviet Union, with the Weimar Republic and Japan as ...
Black argues that the Department was “created of and for American expansionism,” [5] and also that it “was a key mechanism for ensuring and obscuring the projection of American power in the world.” [6] Initially serving to confine Native Americans to reservations and develop western resources, the Department easily turned its attention ...
Most foreign policy historians regard McKinley's decision to start the Spanish-American War to be the beginning of America's status as a modern world power. Cleveland never wanted America to ...
It was further developed by sociologist Salvatore Babones to analyze today's millennial world-system [3] through the lens of the Chinese concept of tianxia, meaning "all under heaven." [4] While the United States is often called an "empire," this is a historically loaded term that is associated with perceptions of American imperialism.
Neocolonialism is the control by a state (usually, a former colonial power) over another nominally independent state (usually, a former colony) through indirect means. [1] [2] [3] The term neocolonialism was first used after World War II to refer to the continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries, but its meaning soon broadened to apply, more generally, to places where the ...