deimperialization

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English

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Etymology

From 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’.