Hardly a day goes by during the frenetic first fortnight of his presidency that Donald Trump does not lavish praise on his late-19th century predecessor William McKinley, a.k.a. the "Napoleon of ...

Having campaigned on a policy of ending wars, making peace, putting America first and disentangling the country from the world, President-elect Donald Trump this week decided to revive 19th ...

Trump revives 19th-century imperialism. Make Russia great again! Calling the U.S.-Canada border “artificial” is what Putin says about Russia and Ukraine. January 10, 2025. 5 min.

Modern imperialism reached its height in Europe’s golden 19th century, when Kipling wrote The White Man’s Burden and Empire-Builder Cecil Rhodes laid his hand on the map of Africa and ...

“The same maneuver was repeated toward the end of the 19th Century. Exploiting China’s hatred of Japan, Russia obtained from China Port Arthur and Dairen and Manchurian railways.

The aggressive rhetoric harkens back to a 19th century-like world view when colonial powers sought to carve up Africa, ... Economic self-interest is often the glue that promotes American imperialism.

Over the past century, imperialism has been on the retreat. Surely it couldn’t be back? Certainly Donald Trump’s foreign policy has a 19th-century feel to it.