A primary essential characteristic of imperialism is inequality. The definition, according to historian Harrison Wright, can be a little tricky to define by historians and social research.

Seemingly, no two authors can agree on what imperialism is and the debate over imperialism has hit an impasse, where the definition of imperialism itself seems to be colonizing different distinct ...

Sometimes, imperialism is defined very broadly to mean the domination of weaker states by stronger ones. But empire building, colonialism and military competition have existed ever since states ...

Imperialism can be defined as domination from above and from afar. While colonialism implies the physical occupation of a ...

At the most general level, I define imperialism as a form of global capitalism centred on continued extraction and transfers of value from poorer (or periphery) countries to rich (or core ...

The special editions of the dictionaries published for Soviet consumption define imperialism as “the highest and last stage of capitalism” and fascism as “a form of reactionary ...

on the other are avowedly progressive liberals and socialists who express varying degrees of shame about the past but deny that imperialism continues in any meaningful way to define relations ...