Russia s Economic Imperialism

(i) Imperialism towards peoples and their territories

Complaining about colonialism and imperialism, they wouldn't move one foot.

In our countries, young people have a notable role in the fight against imperialism.

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Military imperialism begets armed resistance in which a triumph is but a pause in its impermanence.

Now you can't just blame this on imperialism though many people have tried to do so for two reasons.

Experts have always underestimated the expansionary character of American foreign policy, because they think of expansion in old world terms conquest, imperialism, and colonialism. The US does not seek to create an empire in the old sense America pursues an imperialism of the values that it holds dear.

According to Abu Lughod, Western imperialism superimposed itself on these older circuits, without obliterating them. Islam continued to spread across geographic and political boundaries.

Cultural imperialism distorts the mind, but in that very distortion the seed of its rejection germinates, blossoms and bears a bitter and even chauvinistic fruit.

Imperialism seeks to convert this meeting into a pointless competition in oratory, to prevent it from solving the serious problems of the world that design we must frustrate. (Ibid.)

SANTIAGO When the leaders of Mercosur met in Caracas this week, the usual bluster about standing up to imperialism filled the air. But so did the unmistakable scent of decay.

But nor did nineteenth century colonialists think of themselves as immoral. Indeed, perhaps the greatest of British imperial conquerors in Africa, Cecil Rhodes, once defined imperialism as philanthropy plus 5 .

(i) Imperialism toward peoples and their territories (iv) Double standards of enunciating human rights and the rule of law, which were formally rather than practically applied in her colonial possessions and protectorates

Again, after having lived for more than 200 years under the East India Company and under imperial rule, Indians had a very natural reaction towards globalization believing it was a form of imperialism.

In order to distribute the burden more equitably, Germany tried to have a European quota system instituted to allocate applicants among the EU s member countries. But Germany s EU partners rejected this as moral imperialism.

Overt military imperialism of the Soviet sort has, at least historically, rarely been the Chinese way. Sun Tzu, the great Chinese theorist of warfare, focused on the weakening of an adversary psychologically, not in battle.

Economic imperialism muzzles the mouth with the food that it eats to live and thus builds resentment in that very mouth that eats, and even more so among those who receive no food to eat.

From the point of view of China s Communist rulers, this seems perverse. They regard Hong Kongers democratic demands as a misguided effort to mimic Western politics, or even as a form of nostalgia for British imperialism.

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. It sent young people to the West for education.

That is the paradox of imperialism. 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.

It would also be unjust if we failed to commemorate the deaths and atrocities suffered by 20 million Chinese patriots and one million Koreans in their heroic resistance to the aggression by Japanese imperialism which began in 1937.

Can anything restore the old transatlantic harmony? 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.

Compromise is anathema to the radical mind. Some radical leftist Muslims, obsessed with their opposition to Western imperialism and Israel, saluted Mousavi s defeat, for, as one such activist put it, the anti Zionist resistance cannot afford a pro American velvet revolution.

A leading public intellectual Naoki Inose, who is also Tokyo s vice governor, has declared that the era of growth is over. When Japan was threatened by Western imperialism, he says, the country had to open up (in 1868) and modernize.

That is an enduring conundrum of our times which, in this earthly city, we, amidst all our limitations and weaknesses, must seek to address appropriately with all our possibilities and strengths, but without the baggage of economic, military or cultural imperialism.

The Committee for Investigation of Damages Caused by the Japanese Imperialists during their Occupation of Korea has presented here only a few materials related to the crimes of kidnapping, drafting and genocide committed by Japanese imperialism against the Korean people.

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. But Europe will not be eager to embrace such a future.

They do not have a government that protects them from natural disasters that are foreseen, if we are talking about protecting each other. These are very dangerous concepts smacking of imperialism and interventionism and trying to legalize lack of respect for the sovereignty of countries.

For years, he has been accused of taking over where Fidel Castro left off supporting the rhetoric of radicalism and anti imperialism, if not revolution, throughout Latin America. It could now be time for other Latin American nations and the international community to take such charges more seriously.

The process of gaining independence from Spanish imperialism was transformed from a class struggle to a national one by the action taken in 1816 by the elite civilian and military liberators, who were nurtured by the first anti colonial rebellion in the Caribbean the Haitian Revolution of 1804.

(2) Portugal shall advocate the abolition of imperialism, colonialism and all other forms of aggression, domination and exploitation in relations among peoples and the establishment of a system of collective security, with a view to creating an international order capable of safeguarding peace and justice in relations between peoples.

The Twentieth Congress shattered the world Communist movement, and it turned out to be impossible to cement the cracks. The Soviet Union and other socialist countries faced a crisis of faith, as the main threat to communism was not imperialism, or ideological dissidents, but the movement s own intellectual poverty and disillusion.

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.

Now more than ever, it is worth remembering that the last great financial crash not only inspired the New Deal in the United States, but also plunged the world into a new dark age of economic nationalism and imperialism. Free trade is far from perfect, but the alternatives are worse.

In his dogged defence of his friends, M. Lecoq had forgotten that, in his day, one of the leading proponents of his ideology, Jean Jaurès, had fought to defend the independence and territorial integrity of countries which had, like Morocco, been coveted by European imperialism since the beginning of the century.

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. In recent years, China s government alone has invested billions of dollars in African infrastructure and resource extraction, raising suspicions that a new scramble for Africa is underway.

If all countries have the same values, traditional imperialism becomes obsolete. Though it clearly lacks the power to impose its values by force, the US certainly has the power to unsettle established conditions, both through the attraction of its soft power (the American way of life) and by the exemplary use of force.

Given the West s record of horrendous warfare and often brutal imperialism, this seems unlikely. Moreover, the way ordinary Chinese rallied to help victims of the earthquake in Sichuan has been quite remarkable, as have been the spontaneous efforts of people in Burma to assist their fellow citizens, even as the military did very little.

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.

2. Through the policies it pursues in this field, Jordan has consistently stressed the need to condemn all forms of imperialism, racial discrimination and segregation, to recognize the right to self determination and to grant independence to colonized peoples, in order to guarantee human rights and promote their realization in the most effective manner.

Some observers conflate the concept with imperialism but the US is clear evidence that a hegemon does not have to have a formal empire. Others define hegemony as the ability to set the rules of the international system but precisely how much influence over this process a hegemon must have, relative to other powers, remains unclear.

After all, he reacted to China s growing activities in Africa which his officials maintained was reminiscent of imperialism by receiving an official visit in 2006 from Taiwan s then President Chen Shui bian. As the pressure from the rebels grew, Qaddafi s last hope for maintaining power became China, and so fear of its influence in Africa was brushed aside.

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. But this process of realization is more likely to succeed if Japan does not feel it stands with its back against a wall.

Russia s actions are aimed at fomenting an anti government backlash in Georgia, thereby paving the way for pro Russian political forces to come to power. But the illiberalism inherent in Russian imperialism is not limited to recent behavior, and, more disturbingly, it extends to the question of Georgia s territorial integrity, as Russian troops continue to prop up secessionist regions.