disimperialism

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ imperialism

Noun

disimperialism (uncountable)

1. A dismantling of or movement away from imperialism.
   • 1965, Norman Judson Padelford, Leland Matthew Goodrich, The United Nations in the Balance: Accomplishments and Prospects:

     After the war the process of disimperialism in the Middle East accelerated under UN auspices or was spurred on by its actions.

   • 1969, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, page 3:

     Nationalism succeeded much more rapidly than was foreseen because of the combination of its own potent domestic appeal, the radical disintegration of European strength in maintaining authority, and the new gospel of both the Russians and the Americans favoring "disimperialism."

   • 2018, Robert D. Lee, Overcoming Tradition And Modernity:

     Despite the disimperialism of the postwar decades, the prevalent mode of thought about the non-Western world has remained thoroughly developmental and thoroughly Western in both the Middle East and the West.