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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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
In Mass Communication and American Empire, Herbert I. Schiller emphasized the significance of the mass media and cultural industries to American imperialism, arguing that "each new electronic development widens the perimeter of American influence," and declaring that "American power, expressed industrially, militarily and culturally has become the most potent force on earth and communications ...
The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and the collapse of the Spanish Empire in Latin America in the 1820s ended the first era of European imperialism. Especially in Great Britain these revolutions helped show the deficiencies of mercantilism, the doctrine of economic competition for finite wealth which had supported earlier imperial expansion.
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 ...