neo-imperialismn.

1913 A. L. Thorold Life H. Labouchere viii. 191 Dizzy had succeeded in converting his colleagues..to his neo-Imperialism in which an Asiatic Empire under British rule was an element.

1962 Listener 5 Apr. 583/2 It does..make sense to regard this neo-imperialism of the left as an extension of its traditional Little Englanderism.

1971 Yearbk. World Affairs XXV. 136 Neo-imperialism is more broadly defined to include the creation and maintenance of an economic sphere of influence by one or more developed countries embracing one or more countries at a very much lower state of economic development.

1991 Greece & Rome 38 36 Suspicions that the new league screened a policy of neo-imperialism, seemed to be confirmed when Athens revived territorial claims based on her fifth-century imperial past.

2000 Times 5 Sept. i. 19/2 The strident interventionist tone of the Government's foreign policy may be welcomed by some allies but critics have charged that the policy amounts to neo-imperialism.