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.

It was Lenin, not Thucydides, who foresaw the challenge the People’s Republic is now facing: He called it imperialism and said it led to economic collapse and war. Lenin defined imperialism as a ...

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 ...

Few notions of national identity exist without some kind of other, an opposing force against which the nation can be defined. For Ukrainians, the principal other, of course, has been Russia. In its ...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines imperialism this way: “the policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions or ...

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 ...