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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 ...
A series of Neutrality Acts passed by the U.S. Congress in the 1930s sought to return foreign policy to non-interventionism in European affairs, as it had been prior to the American entry into World War I. However, Nazi Germany's U-boat attacks on American vessels in 1941 saw many provisions of the Neutrality Acts largely revoked.
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.
Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.
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.
While the United States, the 27-country European Union and Japan responded with new sanctions against Russia’s imperialist annexation of four regions in Ukraine, Latin America’s reaction, in ...
China's defence ministry blamed the United States' stance on Taiwan for its minister not meeting his U.S. counterpart during a gathering this week in Laos. Defence Minister Dong Jun turned down ...
Japan continued its early imperialism with the annexation of Korea in 1910. The United States entered the region in 1898 during the Spanish–American War, taking the Philippines as its sole colony after a mock battle in the capital and the later formal acquisition of the Philippines from Spain through the 1898 Treaty of Paris.