Empire

Question 1

What is an empire?

Answer 1

Any extensive group of states subject to authority of a metropolitan state

Question 2

Colonialism?

Answer 2

• Direct political control of a people by a foreign state
• Control by one group over another inhabiting a separate territory
• Empire developed for settling by communities or commercial purpose

Question 3

World system’s theory (proposed by Immanuel Wallerstein)

Answer 3

Mans ability to participate in the evolution of his own system is dependent on ability to perceive the whole

Question 4

World system?

Answer 4

aggregate structural result of the sum of the interactions between polities

Question 5

Core?

Answer 5

Advanced states. Kono powa

Question 6

Periphery?

Answer 6

Developing and underdeveloped. Not kono powa

Question 7

Semiperiphery?

Answer 7

Developed but not as much as core. Kinda kono powa

Question 8

Hidden Empires: Imperial America?

Answer 8

It’s an empire that has all the functions of military empire, if you like. It has the capacity to project itself in terms of force over vast geographical distances. It’s an empire that is remarkably adept at spreading its culture globally. In that sense, it’s an empire with almost unrivaled military and cultural power. But when it comes to what might be called imperial governance, it is an empire which, precisely because it doesn’t recognize its own existence, consistently underperforms

Question 9

Hidden in plain sight?

Answer 9

Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands
Spoils of war or purchase