imperialism

CEFRC1

/ɪmˈpɪə.ɹi.ə.lɪ.z(ə)m/

noun

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noun
A policy of controlling other countries or peoples.
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noun
Extra detail
Any undue extension of political, intellectual, or other forms of authority, particularly in regards to systems that benefit the Western world at the cost of the Global South.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meaning

The policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.

In context

We are tired of American imperialism.
The moral imperialism of the Supreme Court did not end with Chief Justice Warren’s resignation nor with the departures of the Justices who made up his distinctive majority.
Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.

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Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
2008 June 1, A. Dirk Moses, “Preface”, in Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page x
The moral imperialism of the Supreme Court did not end with Chief Justice Warren’s resignation nor with the departures of the Justices who made up his distinctive majority.
1990, Robert H. Bork, The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law, →ISBN, page 101
By contrast, economists of the Chicago School approach [sociology] from a standpoint of the imperialism of economics, in the sense that they advance the study of substructure into the areas of the study of superstructure, by researching it as economics.
1998, Michio Morishima, “Foreword: Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883–1950) and Yasuma Takata (1883–1972)”, in Joseph Schumpeter, Yasuma Takata, Power or Pure Economics?, →ISBN, page xxxvi
[…] her analysis of the discourse on private belief […] “reduced” and thus “explained away” my intuitions as being something other than what I experience them to be for myself. It was therefore the imperialism of her method that I claimed to be particularly offensive.
2015, Russell T. McCutcheon, A Modest Proposal on Method: Essaying the Study of Religion, →ISBN, page 33

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From imperial + -ism.