But outside of western Europe and Japan, American policy-makers often believed that they had to choose between maintaining America's opposition to imperialism and colonialism and opposing the Soviet Union in the Cold War.
Asked to name the world's most active Islamic network, many a pundit would think first of the Muslim Brotherhood, whose reach has extended a long way from Egypt, where it began in the 1920s as a movement of resistance to the twin evils of secularism and colonialism.
In retrospect it seems odd and, of course, tragic that in those days, just after World War II, while much of the rest of the world was at least tentatively coming to grips with the embarrassing inequities of racism and colonialism, the Afrikaners were moving their country headlong in the opposite direction.
El Museo has an exceptionally polished installation that emphasizes a sense of place and issues of colonialism, including problematic questions of exoticism and otherness.
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And English has become, thanks to the combination of British colonialism and American commercialism, a global tongue.
Attentiveness to fluctuations and alterations in the natural milieu is an integral part of their ways of life, and remains of crucial cultural importance even in areas where lifestyles have been modified by colonialism and globalization.
Italy has just apologised to Libya and paid reparations for colonialism (in exchange for energy deals and co-operation on migration).
But colonialism and the history of slavery are two very different histories, very different narratives.
Erasmus opposed Spanish colonialism and wrote the first European book making a case for peace.
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Mr Derrida's style of deconstruction flowered especially in American departments of comparative literature, where it became interwoven with Marxism, feminism and anti-colonialism.
He wrote to President Truman on eight occasions, praising American anti-colonialism and looking forward to happy relations between Vietnam and the United States.
The game is set against the backdrop of Western colonialism and mercantilism coming to Japan, adding yet another layer of history and politics to the fairy tale.
Today, Southeast Asia is largely free from divisions born of colonialism and the Cold War, and ASEAN is respected, not manipulated, by big powers (most of the time, at least).
This report makes clear that many business regulations in developing countries are, in fact, the legacy of colonialism and thus of European legal systems, rather than of public choices made by local citizens.
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But the negative aspect of tribe comes with the scholarship of anthropology that accompanied colonialism and defined Africans as small cultures devoid of larger political context, where other nationalities also survived in bigger communities.
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called the ruling "judicial colonialism" and said her government would not pay a single dollar.
They were accomplices in colonialism, and helped engender the complacency that has brought destruction to big game populations across Africa.
Lula's Brazil represents another version of Third World obsessed and outdated anti-colonialism.
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In all cases, the political development of Muslim countries has been as much shaped by poverty and the legacy of colonialism as it has Islam.
Long-time Africa campaigner Sir Bob Geldof says people should not worry about Chinese investment in Africa and rebuffs the idea of economic colonialism.
The dilemma for Paris has been painful: to intervene - and be caricatured as a throw-back to the neo-colonialism of "la Francafrique" - or not to intervene, and see a first chance to stand tall on the African continent dwindle into the desert sands?
When it really developed was in the second half of the 19th century, when European colonialism was venturing into Africa and other parts of the world.
Kimani Maruge is an 85-year-old Kenyan, a veteran of the Mau Mau uprising against British colonialism in the 1950s, and, as of last year, a full-time pupil at school in rural south-west Kenya.
More than 200 years of Spanish colonialism, a Western-Pacific heritage and the current American control are stirred together for a number of unique local dishes, like the Chorizo Breakfast Bowl.
This is partly a consequence of the dismal legacy of Portuguese colonialism, which left few East Timorese administrators and business people.
To both Mr Johnson and Mr Khalid, the fact that hostilities have outlasted colonialism as well as the cold war, not to mention many regional reconfigurations, is proof that it has deeper roots than this season's political and economic flashpoints.
My 90-year-old grandmother has experienced in her lifetime what one would imagine happening over centuries: colonialism, a war, industrialization, the rise and fall of a military dictatorship, and maturing democracy.
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Born the same year, graduated from an Ivy League school the same year, married the same year, similar skin color, and similar backgrounds in the sense that both had ancestors who grew up under colonialism.
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He developed it a little bit more and developed it in such a way that we - that the Islamic world could insulate itself from Western colonialism by using a system of Islamic economics.
Remembering the centuries of colonialism, we might speculate on why British artists don't appear to have been influential here, and it's a generally apolitical array of images, other than two works by Atul Dodiya (b. 1959).
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