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This chapter begins by discussing the era of New Imperialism that ran from the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth century as a second wave of colonial expansion took place. It goes on to further discuss a second era of New Imperialism from the late twentieth century on in which imperialism took on different forms that did not necessarily require the formal conquest and annexation of territory. Examples include neo-imperialism, economic imperialism, cultural imperialism, liberal imperialism, humanitarian imperialism, democratic imperialism, Western imperialism and American imperialism. The chapter concludes with a discussion of moral imperialism suggesting that all forms of imperialism have a moral dimension.

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  1. Western Sydney University, Greater Western Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Brett Bowden

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  1. School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

    Howard Williams

  2. School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

    David Boucher

  3. School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

    Peter Sutch

  4. Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

    David Reidy

  5. School of Psychology and Humanities, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

    Alexandros Koutsoukis

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Bowden, B. (2023). New Imperialism. In: Williams, H., Boucher, D., Sutch, P., Reidy, D., Koutsoukis, A. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of International Political Theory. International Political Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36111-1_15

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