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An eight page paper which considers the concepts of traditional and modern imperialism in the context of the New World Order and American isolationism. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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itself and the way in which it has changed over the past decades, especially with regard to the position of the superpowers in a global context. The independent sovereignty of
nation-states was something which, until the recent advances in global communications and the breaking-down of trade barriers, was accepted as part of the natural order of political demographics. Trade agreements
such as GATT, whilst designed to provide more equality between rich and poor countries after the Second World War, still accepted that individual nations would maintain their sovereignty at all
costs, and that this separation would provide the basis for trade and political dealings.
However, as Hardt and Negri (2000) point out, in the past fifty years there have been significant changes in what could be described as the old imperialism which, they assert,
has given rise to a new form of Empire. Under the old order, there were noticeable inequalities in the economic status and development of different countries, coupled with considerable conflict
between the stronger nations and an unwillingness to relinquish control on the part of the stronger powers. Part of the changes which occurred took place gradually, as colonial rule was
replaced by an increasing number of autonomous self-determining states, whereas others were more precipitate: the collapse of the Soviet bloc, and the resultant interchange between East and West, being the
most salient example. In addition, there were changes in the position of the USA with relation
to the rest of the world. In the post-war years, the ideological divide between east and west, coupled with the USs increasing economic superiority, meant that the country was able
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