Deimperialization
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Deimperialization is a noun meaning (political science) The process of deimperializing; the dismantling or formal ending of an empire.
Meaning
(political science) The process of deimperializing; the dismantling or formal ending of an empire.
Example Sentences
Perhaps the British should study Turkey; God knows, we need models for de-imperialisation.
The implosion of the USSR itself, beginning in 1991 after the loss of its east European dominions, in effect constituted an enormous deimperialization process of a system based on eight decades of ‘internal terror and fear of external enemies’.
Word Forms
- deimperialisation
- de-imperialization
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include de-ethnicization, decommercialization, dehistoricization, debellatio, de-ethnization, derationalization.
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