Informal empire, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 130 relations: Alexander Wendt, Americanization, Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata, Anglo-Russian Convention, Anti-imperialism, Argentina, Berlin–Baghdad railway, Brezhnev Doctrine, British Empire, British Raj, Capital accumulation, Chile, Chinese Eastern Railway, Classical Athens, Colony, Commonwealth of Nations, Communist International, Company rule in India, Convention for the Lease of the Liaotung Peninsula, Covert operation, David Reynolds (historian), Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire, Decolonization, Delian League, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Dmitri Trenin, East Germany, East India Company, Eastern Bloc, Emperor at home, king abroad, Empire, Empire of Brazil, Empire of Japan, Eric Hobsbawm, Extraterritorial jurisdiction, Extraterritoriality, Finlandization, First Opium War, Foreign concessions in China, Foreign policy of the United States, Françafrique, Free trade, French colonial empire, Friedrich Kratochwil, German colonial empire, German Empire, Great Game, Greek colonisation, Grover Cleveland, Gunboat diplomacy, ... Expand index (80 more) »

2. Empires
3. Free trade imperialism
4. History of the British Empire
5. Japanese colonial empire
6. Overseas empires

Alexander Wendt

Alexander Wendt (born 12 June 1958) is an American political scientist who is one of the core social constructivist researchers in the field of international relations, and a key contributor to quantum social science.

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Americanization

Americanization or Americanisation (see spelling differences) is the influence of the American culture and economy on other countries outside the United States, including their media, cuisine, business practices, popular culture, technology and political techniques.

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Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata

The Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata, also known as Paraná War, was a five-year naval blockade imposed by France and the United Kingdom on the Argentine Confederation during the Uruguayan Civil War.

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Anglo-Russian Convention

The Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 (g.), or Convention between the United Kingdom and Russia relating to Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet (Конвенция между Соединенным Королевством и Россией относительно Персии, Афганистана, и Тибета; Konventsiya mezhdu Soyedinennym Korolevstvom i Rossiyey otnositel'no Persii, Afghanistana, i Tibeta), was signed on August 31, 1907, in Saint Petersburg.

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Anti-imperialism

Anti-imperialism in political science and international relations is opposition to imperialism or neocolonialism. Informal empire and Anti-imperialism are imperialism studies.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Berlin–Baghdad railway

The Baghdad railway, also known as the Berlin–Baghdad railway (Bağdat Demiryolu, Bagdadbahn, سكة حديد بغداد, Chemin de Fer Impérial Ottoman de Bagdad), was started in 1903 to connect Berlin with the then Ottoman city of Baghdad, from where the Germans wanted to establish a port on the Persian Gulf, with a line through modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.

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Brezhnev Doctrine

The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet foreign policy that proclaimed that any threat to "socialist rule" in any state of the Soviet Bloc in Central and Eastern Europe was a threat to all of them, and therefore, it justified the intervention of fellow socialist states.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. Informal empire and British Empire are overseas empires.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.

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Capital accumulation

Capital accumulation is the dynamic that motivates the pursuit of profit, involving the investment of money or any financial asset with the goal of increasing the initial monetary value of said asset as a financial return whether in the form of profit, rent, interest, royalties or capital gains.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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Chinese Eastern Railway

The Chinese Eastern Railway or CER (Китайско-Восточная железная дорога, or КВЖД, Kitaysko-Vostochnaya Zheleznaya Doroga or KVZhD), is the historical name for a railway system in Northeast China (also known as Manchuria).

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Classical Athens

The city of Athens (Ἀθῆναι, Athênai a.tʰɛ̂ː.nai̯; Modern Greek: Αθήναι, Athine or, more commonly and in singular, Αθήνα, Athina) during the classical period of ancient Greece (480–323 BC) was the major urban centre of the notable polis (city-state) of the same name, located in Attica, Greece, leading the Delian League in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta and the Peloponnesian League.

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Colony

A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule.

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Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.

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Communist International

The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was an international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism, and which was led and controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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Company rule in India

Company rule in India (sometimes Company Raj, from lit) was the rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent.

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Convention for the Lease of the Liaotung Peninsula

The Convention for the Lease of the Liaotung Peninsula (Русско-китайская конвенция), also known as the Pavlov Agreement, is an unequal treaty signed between Alexander Pavlov of the Russian Empire and Li Hongzhang of the Qing dynasty of China on 27 March 1898.

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Covert operation

A covert operation or undercover operation is a military or police operation involving a covert agent or troops acting under an assumed cover to conceal the identity of the party responsible.

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David Reynolds (historian)

David Reynolds, (born 17 February 1952) is a British historian.

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Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire

In the late 18th century, the Ottoman Empire faced threats on numerous frontiers from multiple industrialised European powers.

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Decolonization

independence. Decolonization is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas.

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Delian League

The Delian League was a confederacy of Greek city-states, numbering between 150 and 330, founded in 478 BC under the leadership (hegemony) of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece.

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Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

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Dmitri Trenin

Dmitri Vitalyevich Trenin is a member of.

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East Germany

East Germany (Ostdeutschland), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik,, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.

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Eastern Bloc

The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).

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Emperor at home, king abroad

Emperor at home, king abroad was a system of conducting relations between states within the Chinese cultural sphere.

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Empire

An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". Informal empire and empire are empires.

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Empire of Brazil

The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and Uruguay until the latter achieved independence in 1828.

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Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.

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Eric Hobsbawm

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm (9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism.

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Extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) is the legal ability of a government to exercise authority beyond its normal boundaries.

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In international law, extraterritoriality or exterritoriality is the state of being exempted from the jurisdiction of local law, usually as the result of diplomatic negotiations.

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Finlandization

Finlandization (suomettuminen; finlandisering; Finnlandisierung; soometumine; финляндизация, finlyandizatsiya) is the process by which one powerful country makes a smaller neighboring country refrain from opposing the former's foreign policy rules, while allowing it to keep its nominal independence and its own political system.

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First Opium War

The First Opium War, also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and the Qing dynasty of China between 1839 and 1842.

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Foreign concessions in China

Foreign concessions in China were a group of concessions that existed during the late Imperial China and the Republic of China, which were governed and occupied by foreign powers, and are frequently associated with colonialism and imperialism.

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Foreign policy of the United States

The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States of America, including all the bureaus and offices in the United States Department of State, as mentioned in the Foreign Policy Agenda of the Department of State, are "to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community".

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Françafrique

In international relations, Françafrique is France's sphere of influence (or pré carré in French, meaning 'backyard') over former French and (also French-speaking) Belgian colonies in sub-Saharan Africa. Informal empire and Françafrique are French colonial empire.

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Free trade

Free trade is a trade policy that does not restrict imports or exports.

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French colonial empire

The French colonial empire comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. Informal empire and French colonial empire are overseas empires.

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Friedrich Kratochwil

Friedrich Kratochwil (born 1944 in Břeclav, Moravia) is a German university professor who studied at the University of Munich before migrating to the United States, then subsequently returning to Europe.

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German colonial empire

The German colonial empire (Deutsches Kolonialreich) constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies, and territories of the German Empire. Informal empire and German colonial empire are overseas empires.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic. Informal empire and German Empire are overseas empires.

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Great Game

The Great Game was a rivalry between the 19th-century British and Russian empires over influence in Central Asia, primarily in Afghanistan, Persia, and Tibet.

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Greek colonisation

Greek colonisation refers to the expansion of Archaic Greeks, particularly during the 8th–6th centuries BC, across the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.

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Grover Cleveland

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837June 24, 1908) was an American politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.

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Gunboat diplomacy

Gunboat diplomacy is the pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of conspicuous displays of naval power, implying or constituting a direct threat of warfare should terms not be agreeable to the superior force.

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Historiography of the British Empire

The historiography of the British Empire refers to the studies, sources, critical methods and interpretations used by scholars to develop a history of the British Empire. Informal empire and historiography of the British Empire are history of the British Empire.

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History of Egypt under the British

The history of Egypt under the British lasted from 1882, when it was occupied by British forces during the Anglo-Egyptian War, until 1956 after the Suez Crisis, when the last British forces withdrew in accordance with the Anglo-Egyptian agreement of 1954. Informal empire and history of Egypt under the British are history of the British Empire.

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History of opium in China

The history of opium in China began with the use of opium for medicinal purposes during the 7th century.

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History of the foreign relations of the United Kingdom

The history of the foreign relations of the United Kingdom covers English, British, and United Kingdom's foreign policy from about 1500 to 2000. Informal empire and history of the foreign relations of the United Kingdom are overseas empires.

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House of Romanov

The House of Romanov (also transliterated as Romanoff; Romanovy) was the reigning imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917.

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Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is an American and Canadian-based retail business group.

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Ian Bremmer

Ian Arthur Bremmer (born November 12, 1969) is an American political scientist, author, and entrepreneur focused on global political risk.

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Jack Gallagher (historian)

John Andrew Gallagher (1 April 1919 – 5 March 1980), known as Jack Gallagher, was an historian of the British Empire who between 1963 and 1970 held the Beit Professorship of Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford and from 1971 until his death was the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge. Informal empire and Jack Gallagher (historian) are imperialism studies.

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Jacques Foccart

Jacques Foccart (31 August 1913 – 19 March 1997) was a French businessman and politician, best known as a chief adviser to French presidents on African affairs.

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Karl von Koseritz

Karl Julius Christian Adalbert Heinrich Ferdinand von Koseritz, known simply as Karl von Koseritz (3 February 1834 in Dessau – 29 April 1890 in Porto Alegre) was a German-Brazilian journalist, writer, teacher, playwright and politician.

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Lüshunkou, Dalian

Lüshunkou District (also Lyushunkou District) is a district of Dalian, Liaoning province, China.

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Levant Company

The Levant Company was an English chartered company formed in 1592.

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Lists of political office-holders in East Germany

These are lists of political office-holders in East Germany.

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Mandala (political model)

Maṇḍala is a Sanskrit word meaning 'circle'.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.

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Mongolian People's Republic

The Mongolian People's Republic (MPR; Бүгд НайрамдахМонгол Ард Улс, БНМАУ) was a socialist state that existed from 1924 to 1992, located in the historical region of Outer Mongolia under the Qing dynasty.

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Muscovy Company

The Muscovy Company (also called the Russia Company or the Muscovy Trading Company; Moskovskaya kompaniya) was an English trading company chartered in 1555. It was the first major chartered joint-stock company, the precursor of the type of business that would soon flourish in England and finance its exploration of the world.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.

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New France

New France (Nouvelle-France) was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris.

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New Imperialism

In historical contexts, New Imperialism characterizes a period of colonial expansion by European powers, the United States, and Japan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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North American fur trade

The North American fur trade is the (typically) historical commercial trade of furs and other goods in North America, predominantly in the eastern provinces of Canada and the northeastern American colonies (soon-to-be northeastern United States).

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries. Informal empire and Ottoman Empire are overseas empires.

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Pacific War

The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania.

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Pastry War

The Pastry War (Guerra de los pasteles; Guerre des Pâtisseries), also known as the first French intervention in Mexico or the first Franco-Mexican war (1838–1839), began in November 1838 with the naval blockade of some Mexican ports and the capture of the fortress of San Juan de Ulúa in the port of Veracruz by French forces sent by King Louis Philippe I.

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People's republic

People's republic is an official title that is mostly used by current and former communist states, as well as other left-wing governments.

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Persian Cossack Brigade

The Persian Cossack Brigade, also known as the Iranian Cossack Brigade (Berīgād-e qazzāq), was a Cossack-style cavalry unit formed in 1879 in Persia (modern Iran).

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Polity

A polity is a group of people with a collective identity, who are organized by some form of political institutionalized social relations, and have a capacity to mobilize resources.

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Power politics

Power politics is a theory of power in international relations which contends that distributions of power and national interests, or changes to those distributions, are fundamental causes of war and of system stability.

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President of the United States

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Princely state

A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy of the British crown.

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Prison of peoples

Prison of peoples or prison of nations (тюрьма народов) is a phrase first used by Vladimir Lenin in 1914.

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Protectionism

Protectionism, sometimes referred to as trade protectionism, is the economic policy of restricting imports from other countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, import quotas, and a variety of other government regulations.

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Protectorate

A protectorate, in the context of international relations, is a state that is under protection by another state for defence against aggression and other violations of law.

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Qajar dynasty

The Qajar dynasty (translit; 1789–1925) was an Iranian dynasty founded by Mohammad Khan of the Qoyunlu clan of the Turkoman Qajar tribe.

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Qajar Iran

The Sublime State of Iran, commonly referred to as Qajar Iran, Qajar Persia, the Qajar Empire, Sublime State of Persia, and also the Guarded Domains of Iran, was the Iranian state under the rule of the Qajar dynasty, which was of Turkic origin,Cyrus Ghani.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Realism (international relations)

Realism, a school of thought in international relations theory, is a theoretical framework that views world politics as an enduring competition among self-interested states vying for power and positioning within an anarchic global system devoid of a centralized authority.

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Return of the Chinese Eastern Railway

On 31 December 1952, the Soviet Union returned full control of the Chinese Eastern Railway to the People's Republic of China.

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Rhenish Missionary Society

The Rhenish Missionary Society (Rhenish of the river Rhine; Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft, RMG) was one of the largest Protestant missionary societies in Germany.

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Richard Pipes

Richard Edgar Pipes (ריכארד פּיִפּעץ Rikhard Pipets; Ryszard Pipes; July 11, 1923 – May 17, 2018) was an American historian who specialized in Russian and Soviet history.

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Ronald Robinson

Ronald "Robbie" Edward Robinson, CBE, DFC, FBA (3 September 1920 – 19 June 1999) was a distinguished historian of the British Empire who between 1971 and 1987 held the Beit Professorship of Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford. Informal empire and Ronald Robinson are imperialism studies.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.

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Russian conquest of Central Asia

In the 16th century, the Tsardom of Russia embarked on a campaign to expand the Russian frontier to the east.

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Russian conquest of Siberia

The Russian conquest of Siberia took place during 1580–1778, when the Khanate of Sibir became a loose political structure of vassalages that were being undermined by the activities of Russian explorers.

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Russian Dalian

Russian Dalian, also known as Kvantunskaya Oblast, was a leased territory ruled by the Russian Empire that existed between its establishment after the Pavlov Agreement in 1898 and its annexation by the Empire of Japan after the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Russian imperialism

Russian imperialism includes the policy and ideology of power exerted by Russia, as well as its antecedent states, over other countries and external territories. Informal empire and Russian imperialism are empires.

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Russo-Japanese War

The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Japanese Empire and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire.

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Sanctions (law)

Sanctions, in law and legal definition, are penalties or other means of enforcement used to provide incentives for obedience with the law or other rules and regulations.

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Second French intervention in Mexico

The second French intervention in Mexico (segunda intervención francesa en México), also known as the Second Franco-Mexican War (1861–1867), was a military invasion of the Republic of Mexico by the French Empire of Napoleon III, purportedly to force the collection of Mexican debts in conjunction with Great Britain and Spain.

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Second Opium War

The Second Opium War, also known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a colonial war lasting from 1856 to 1860, which pitted United Kingdom, France, and the United States against the Qing dynasty of China.

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Shanghai International Settlement

The Shanghai International Settlement originated from the merger in the year 1863 of the British and American enclaves in Shanghai, in which British and American citizens would enjoy extraterritoriality and consular jurisdiction under the terms of unequal treaties agreed by both parties.

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Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)

The Sino-Soviet conflict of 1929 (Конфликт на Китайско-Восточной железной дороге) was an armed conflict between the Soviet Union and the Chinese warlord Zhang Xueliang of the Republic of China over the Chinese Eastern Railway (also known as the CER).

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Socialism in one country is a theory developed by Joseph Stalin to strengthen socialism within the country rather than socialism globally.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Soviet empire

The term "Soviet empire" collectively refers to the world's territories that the Soviet Union dominated politically, economically, and militarily.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Sphere of influence

In the field of international relations, a sphere of influence is a spatial region or concept division over which a state or organization has a level of cultural, economic, military, or political exclusivity.

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Suzerainty

Suzerainty includes the rights and obligations of a person, state, or other polity which controls the foreign policy and relations of a tributary state but allows the tributary state internal autonomy.

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The Imperialism of Free Trade

"The Imperialism of Free Trade" is an academic article by John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson first published in The Economic History Review in 1953. Informal empire and The Imperialism of Free Trade are free trade imperialism.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T.R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, explorer and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Treaty of Turkmenchay

The Treaty of Turkmenchay (translit; translit) was an agreement between Qajar Iran and the Russian Empire, which concluded the Russo-Persian War (1826–1828).

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Tributary state

A tributary state is a pre-modern state in a particular type of subordinate relationship to a more powerful state which involved the sending of a regular token of submission, or tribute, to the superior power (the suzerain).

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Tributary system of China

The tributary system of China, or Cefeng system at its height was a network of loose international relations centered around China which facilitated trade and foreign relations by acknowledging China's hegemonic role within a Sinocentric world order.

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Tsardom of Russia

The Tsardom of Russia, also known as the Tsardom of Muscovy, was the centralized Russian state from the assumption of the title of tsar by Ivan IV in 1547 until the foundation of the Russian Empire by Peter the Great in 1721. From 1550 to 1700, Russia grew by an average of per year. The period includes the upheavals of the transition from the Rurik to the Romanov dynasties, wars with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire, and the Russian conquest of Siberia, to the reign of Peter the Great, who took power in 1689 and transformed the tsardom into an empire.

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Tsarist autocracy

Tsarist autocracy (tsarskoye samoderzhaviye), also called Tsarism, was an autocracy, a form of absolute monarchy localised with the Grand Duchy of Moscow and its successor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire.

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Tuvan People's Republic

The Tuvan People's Republic (TPR; translit; Yanalif: Tьʙа Arat Respuʙlik), known as the Tannu Tuva People's Republic until 1926, was a partially recognized socialist republic that existed between 1921 and 1944.

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Unequal treaties

The unequal treaties were a series of agreements made between Asian countries (including China and Korea) and foreign powers (including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the United States, Russia, and Japan) during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Informal empire and unequal treaties are free trade imperialism.

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Uruguay

Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America.

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Vassal state

A vassal state is any state that has a mutual obligation to a superior state or empire, in a status similar to that of a vassal in the feudal system in medieval Europe.

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Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903

The Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903 was a naval blockade imposed against Venezuela by Great Britain, Germany, and Italy from December 1902 to February 1903, after President Cipriano Castro refused to pay foreign debts and damages suffered by European citizens in recent Venezuelan civil wars.

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Warlord Era

The Warlord Era was a period in the history of the Republic of China when control of the country was divided among former military cliques of the Beiyang Army and other regional factions from 1916 to 1928.

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Warsaw Pact

The Warsaw Pact (WP), formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (TFCMA), was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.

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Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.

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Western world

The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.

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White movement

The White movement (p), also known as the Whites (Бѣлые / Белые, Beliye), was a loose confederation of anti-communist forces that fought the communist Bolsheviks, also known as the Reds, in the Russian Civil War and that to a lesser extent continued operating as militarized associations of rebels both outside and within Russian borders in Siberia until roughly World War II (1939–1945).

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Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

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Xinjiang

Xinjiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia.

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Yasak

Yasak or yasaq, sometimes iasak, (ясак; akin to Yassa) is a Turkic word for "tribute" that was used in Imperial Russia to designate fur tribute exacted from the indigenous peoples of Siberia.

See Informal empire and Yasak

See also

Empires

• American imperialism
• Chinese expansionism
• Colonial empire
• Conquest dynasty
• Emperors
• Empire
• Factory (trading post)
• Gunpowder empires
• Hegemony
• Hydraulic empire
• Imperialism
• Informal empire
• List of empires
• List of largest empires
• Nomadic empire
• Republican empire
• Russian imperialism
• Tellurocracy
• Thalassocracy
• The empire on which the sun never sets

Free trade imperialism

• Concessions in China
• Informal empire
• Political positions of Winston Churchill
• The Imperialism of Free Trade
• Treaty ports
• Unequal exchange
• Unequal treaties

History of the British Empire

• 1846–1848 Newfoundland potato famine
• Aborigines' Protection Society
• British Empire in World War II
• British Gendarmerie
• British Overseas Territories
• British overseas cities
• British rule in Ireland
• Cape Colony
• Colony of Natal
• Demise of the Crown
• Demographics of the British Empire
• Doctrine of lapse
• Economy of the British Empire
• Empire Free Trade Crusade
• English overseas possessions
• Expulsion of the Loyalists
• Fashoda Incident
• Formation of Malaysia
• Historiography of the British Empire
• History of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
• History of Egypt under the British
• History of the British West Indies
• Independence from the United Kingdom
• Independence of the Maldives
• India Defence League
• Informal empire
• Jameson Raid
• List of countries that have gained independence from the United Kingdom
• Lock hospital
• Names of the Irish state
• Oath of Allegiance (Ireland)
• Operation Legacy
• Pageant of Empire
• Partition of India
• Queen of Rhodesia
• Rhodesian Independence Bell
• Royal assent (Ireland)
• Rudd Concession
• Southern Rhodesia
• The Cambridge History of the British Empire
• Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence
• Women's Emigration Society

Japanese colonial empire

• Center of the People's Power
• Collaboration with Imperial Japan
• Continental Policy (Japan)
• Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
• Hokushin-ron
• Informal empire
• Japanese colonial empire
• Japanese settlement in Micronesia
• Kenkoku University
• Korea under Japanese rule
• Ministry of Colonial Affairs (Japan)
• Ministry of Greater East Asia
• Nanshin-ron
• Rising Sun Flag
• South Manchuria Railway Zone
• Taiwan under Japanese rule

Overseas empires

• 1173 Polonnaruwa invasion of Chola
• American imperialism
• Anuradhapura invasion of Pandya
• Athenian Empire
• Austrian colonial policy
• Belgian colonial empire
• British Empire
• Chola Empire
• Chola conquest of Anuradhapura
• Chola invasion of Srivijaya
• Colonial empire
• Curonian colonisation
• Danish overseas colonies
• Dutch colonial empire
• English overseas possessions
• Factory (trading post)
• French colonial empire
• Genoese colonies
• German Empire
• German colonial empire
• History of the foreign relations of the United Kingdom
• Informal empire
• Italian Empire
• Japanese colonial empire
• Kingdom of Norway (872–1397)
• Kingdom of Polonnaruwa
• List of countries that have gained independence from Spain
• List of countries that have gained independence from the United Kingdom
• List of possessions of Norway
• Omani Empire
• Ottoman Empire
• Pandyan Empire
• Polysynodial System
• Portuguese Empire
• Realm of New Zealand
• Russian colonization of North America
• Saint Thomas (Brandenburg colony)
• Scottish colonization of the Americas
• Sovereign Military Order of Malta
• Spanish Empire
• Stato da Màr
• Swedish colonial empire
• Swedish overseas colonies
• Taiwan under Qing rule
• Timeline of British diplomatic history
• Timeline of European imperialism
• Tuʻi Tonga Empire
• Yapese Empire

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_empire

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