Philosophy:Postmodern imperialism
Postmodern imperialism is beneficial imperialism in the post-colonial age.[1] It is based on providing developing nations with order and organization, voluntarism and stability.[2] Postmodern imperialism negates the widespread belief that imperialism holds negative consequences for the populations of the globe.[3]
European Union
The European Union has often been viewed by critics as a form of imperialism.[4] A postmodern imperialistic view of the European Union states that it can be a force for positive change:
The postmodern EU offers a vision of cooperative empire, a common liberty and a common security without the ethnic domination and centralized absolutism to which past empires have been subject, but also without the ethnic exclusiveness that is the hallmark of the nation state . . . A cooperative empire might be . . . a framework in which each has a share in the government, in which no single country dominates and in which the governing principles are not ethnic but legal.[5]
The foreign policy of the European Union has been considered as a vestige of postmodern imperialism.[6]
United States
Niall Ferguson has labeled the United States of America as a post-colonial empire.[7]
Iraq War
Critic Nayna J. Jhaveri, writing in Antipode, viewed the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a form of "petroimperialism," believing that the U.S. was motivated to go to war to attain vital oil reserves, rather than to pursue the U.S. government's official rationale for the Iraq War ("a preemptive strike to disarm Saddam Hussein of his weapons of mass destruction").[8]
Culture
Some critics viewed the spread of Western cultural influence as a form of postmodern imperialism; George Ritzer coined the term "McDonaldization"[9] and Mark Pendergrast wrote of "Cocacolonization."[10] The spread of capitalism has been seen as a form of imperialism.[11]
See also
- Empire, Multitude by Hardt and Negri
- Jean Bricmont, author of Humanitarian Imperialism
References
- ↑ Niall Ferguson (2008). Empire: How Britain made the Modern World. Penguin (Australia). p. 376.
- ↑ Robert Cooper (2002). "The Postmodern State". Reordering the World: The Long-term Implications of September 11. London: Foreign Policy Centre.
- ↑ Robert Cooper (7 April 2002). "The new liberal imperialism". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/apr/07/1. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
- ↑ Charlotte Bretherton and John Vogler (1999). The European Union as a Global Actor. London: Routledge. https://www.questia.com/library/105561517/the-european-union-as-a-global-actor. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
- ↑ Robert Cooper (2002). "The Postmodern State". Reordering the World: The Long-term Implications of September 11. London: Foreign Policy Centre.
- ↑ Ben Tonra and Thomas Christiansen (eds.) (2004). Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 126. https://www.questia.com/read/118050673/rethinking-european-union-foreign-policy. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
- ↑ Niall Ferguson (2004). Colossus: The Price of America's Empire. London: Allen Lane.
- ↑ Nayna J Jhaveri (2004). "Petroimperialism: US Oil Interests and the War in Iraq". Antipode. Oxford, United Kingdom. https://dk-media.s3.amazonaws.com/AA/AT/gambillingonjustice-com/downloads/275821/Petroimperialism-_US_oil_interests_and_the_Iraq_War.pdf. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ↑ George Ritzer (2009). The McDonaldization of Society. Los Angeles, USA: Pine Forge Press.
- ↑ Mark Pendergrast (15 August 1993). "Viewpoints; A Brief History of Coca-Colonization". https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/15/business/viewpoints-a-brief-history-of-coca-colonization.html. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ↑ Benjamin R. Barber (December 1995). "Jihad vs. McWorld: How the Planet Is Both Falling Apart and Coming Together and What This Means for Democracy". http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/51425/francis-fukuyama/jihad-vs-mcworld-how-the-planet-is-both-falling-apart-and-coming. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
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