We have fought wars to preserve colonial domination and wars to end it.

Rift and Mastery

(c) Strengthening the rule of law by

World Domination Strategy Game

Winter's reign was nearing its end.

The Struggle for Middle East Mastery

The Struggle for Mastery of the Pacific

The Palestinian Struggle for Mastery in Palestine

The white line is for the U.K., and then the U.S.

The German domination didn't last very long.

The British colonial administration finally acquiesced, creating a country out of Muslim majority areas.

It eventually passed to French rule in 1893.

Is the US determined to maintain dominance in the Asia Pacific region?

Centuries of foreign colonialism followed by decades of homegrown authoritarian governments.

Too many of the ex colonies, rejecting their colonial heritage, turned to Russia and communism.

This is, of course, a deeply colonial sentiment, and the legacy of colonialism works against Israel in another way, too. As was true of Apartheid era South Africa, Israel reminds people of the sins of Western imperialism.

Ethnicity or language hardly seem to be a factor in the secessions (one recognized, the other not) of Eritrea from Ethiopia and the Republic of Somaliland'' from Somalia.

This is, of course, a deeply colonial sentiment, and the legacy of colonialism works against Israel in another way, too.

When a state has more than one colonial past, its future is vulnerable.

The colonial legacy also helps account for the relatively docile nature of Muslims in sub Saharan Africa. The colonial powers arbitrary demarcation of borders lumped together in one state diverse ethnic groups which may have been historical antagonists.

The colonial legacy also helps account for the relatively docile nature of Muslims in sub Saharan Africa.

In a global competition, a superpower s competitors are bound to exploit its weaknesses.

The dominance of the mining sector has already raised fears of a dutch disease or resource curse .

What explains the prevalence of fixed rate regimes outside the hard currency countries?

With the emergence of truly global world trade over the ensuing century and a half, Asia s economic dominance withered.

In May 2008, it demonstrated its domestic dominance by taking over the capital, Beirut.

Versions of nationalism as well as the ascendancy of religiously tinted forms of integrisme threaten the fabric of a free world.

With this behavior, Moscow is again testing resistance to its assertion of regional dominance in Ukraine.

It coincided with the peak of the West s belief in its soaring economic strength and perpetual global ascendancy.

China s struggle for mastery in the Pacific is now raising fears in Japan. South of Okinawa is Yonaguni Island, with a population of just 1,800 and visible from Taiwan on a clear day.

China s struggle for mastery in the Pacific is now raising fears in Japan.

This presents the US, the region s other leading actor, with a dilemma watch as China gradually disrupts the status quo and weakens America s allies and strategic partners, or respond and risk upsetting its relationship with China, the Asian country most integral to its interests.

One of the great ironies of colonial history is the way in which colonized people adopted some of the very prejudices that justified colonial rule.

A hitherto latent rivalry between Iran and Israel thus has been transformed into an open struggle for dominance in the Middle East.

But military dominance alone is unable to confer authority, as the Afghan quagmire reminds us every day.

Saudi Arabia is in a violent struggle with Iran for regional supremacy, with geopolitical competition converging with the Sunni Shia rivalry.

In the process the movie industry of the country will lose not being able to compete with big budget Hindi movies and the cultural imperialism will be established.

Tribal claims by Hutus against Tutsis (a rivalry long manipulated by Rwanda's colonial rulers) incited genocide and still scar neighboring Burundi.

In Afghanistan, their long term interests are essentially in harmony, as none including China wants to see Afghanistan become a haven for terrorism once again.

Many blame the crisis on the decades long ascendancy of a laissez faire approach to economic policymaking, and rightly credit government intervention with facilitating recovery.

But only a strong regional consensus on Afghanistan s future can avert the prospect of a renewed struggle for mastery there.

They are now fully aware that their slightly nostalgic post colonial view of these countries as large export markets and deep reservoirs of cheap labor has become outdated. China and India have become genuine competitors who deserve respect, if not sheer awe.

They are now fully aware that their slightly nostalgic post colonial view of these countries as large export markets and deep reservoirs of cheap labor has become outdated.

Men who wish to maintain their control over women will no doubt continue to use culture and religious tradition to justify their dominance.

Nineteenth century British imperialists used that term to describe the British Russian struggle for mastery in Afghanistan and Central Asia.