A few years ago, I came across an old book at an estate sale. Its title caught my eye: “Our New Possessions.” Its cover featured the Statue of Liberty against stylized stars and stripes.

Trump’s threats on Greenland, Gaza, Ukraine and Panama revive old-school US imperialism of dominating other nations by force, after decades of nuclear deterrence Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts ...

THE CONVERSATION — The war being waged by Russia in Ukraine has been described in many ways – an attempt to recreate the USSR, a militant attempt to create a new Eurasia civilization, or a ...

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Ukrainian People Are Resisting the Centuries-Old Force of Russian Imperialism. A man rides his bicycle next to a destroyed Russian tank in Chernihiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, April 21, 2022.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Imperialism is when a nation extends its power through territorial acquisition ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University (THE CONVERSATION) Imperialist rhetoric is ...