neo-imperialistn.adj.

1932 W. Y. Elliott New Brit. Empire vi. 172 The neo-Imperialists who hope for a closer economic union with the colonies and Dominions would be the last to give up India.

1949 H. K. Smith State of Europe iv. 99 They [sc. liberal-minded Americans] have come to support the policy of containing Russia and equipping both America and free Europe to meet any threat of aggression. The same policy, however, is made to order for the neo-imperialists.

1967 Atlantic Jan. 55 I believe that, in fact, we are in danger of seeing the isolationists of the 1920s and 1930s replaced by the neoimperialists, who somehow imagine that the United States has a mandate to impose an American solution the world around.

1994 Time 25 July 43/3 Russian neoimperialists like Zhirinovsky will be making a major mistake..if they try to project the election returns from Ukraine and Belarus onto all the former Soviet republics.

1932 W. Y. Elliott New Brit. Empire vi. 174 The hopeful school of his [sc. Seeley's] neo-imperialist disciples.

1959 Polit. Sci. Q. 74 40 It was suggested that Nasser might label the High Dam scheme a neo-imperialist project.

1975 Transition No. 48. 21 Another source of Nkrumah's anxiety concerned what he perceived as Anglo-American neo-imperialist enthusiasm for the federation which..destined it as a tool of neo-colonialism.

1993 N. Tredell Crit. Decade xvii. 172 Said is..well aware of the way in which those realities [sc. of many post-colonial societies] have reinforced neo-imperialist perceptions in the West: look at what happened to them when we gave them their ‘freedom’!