imperial ambitions
Desire for dominion
Imperial ambitions are desires to expand power, territory, or influence in the manner of an empire.
The phrase typically describes a nation's drive to dominate other regions or peoples: Russia's imperial ambitions in Eastern Europe, The company's imperial ambitions in the tech sector.
The term carries critical overtones, suggesting overreach or aggression.
- expansionismPolicy of territorial growth
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- scramble for AfricaEuropean colonial rush, 1880s-1900s
- exceptionalismBelief in unique superiority
- social DarwinismMisapplied natural selection to society
nationalism · iron fist · annexation · flag planting · resource extraction · cultural assimilation · Roman Empire · ethnocentrism · sphere of influence · puppet states · resistance movements · soft power · manifest destiny · colonization · divide and conquer · trade monopolies · Ottoman Empire · mercantilism
- African explorationDavid Livingstone, Henry Stanley, expeditions, explorers, Richard Burton
imperial ambitionsisolationism
Policy avoiding foreign alliances
non-interventionism · insularity · neutrality · withdrawal · disengagement
imperial ambitionsanti-imperialism
Opposition to foreign domination
decolonization · self-determination · national liberation · anti-colonialism · sovereignty
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