deimperialization

English

Alternative forms

• deimperialisation
• de-imperialization

Etymology

de- +‎ imperialization

Noun

deimperialization (uncountable)

1. (political science) The process of deimperializing; the dismantling or formal ending of an empire.
   • 1972, Angela Carter, “The Back of Beyond”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 253:

     Perhaps the British should study Turkey; God knows, we need models for de-imperialisation.

   • 2007, Bertil Nygren, The Rebuilding of Greater Russia:

     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’.

Related terms

• deimperialize