neocolonialism

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Aid became a bastion of paternalism or, as some came to see it, neocolonialism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

For this maneuver to succeed, however, the end of French neocolonialism proved crucial.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2023

The new film examines neocolonialism in Sudan, focusing on Chinese oil workers, Christian missionaries from Texas, U.N. peacekeepers and other outsiders, whose sometimes questionable interests collide with those of the country’s inhabitants.

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2015

I have eavesdropped on grad students presenting dissertations about the subtext of neocolonialism in my writing. 

From Scientific American • Apr. 25, 2013

But since the 1970s the French intelligentsia has called this neocolonialism.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2010