The empire strikes back - by invitation
Superpower interventions in troubled nations aren't relics of Cold War geostrategy. Establishing spheres of influence continues.
THE diplomatic concept of "Empire by Invitation" reached a high point during the Cold War when the two superpowers (the United States and the Soviet Union) built empires abroad. The concept was infrequently used after that war. Now, it is back in vogue.
New evidence shows that Russia's ongoing military intervention in Ukraine is an attempt to rebuild empire - by invitation, the Russians insist.
A concept invented by Norwegian historian Geir Lundestad in the 1980s, it declares that the superpowers did not always use military force to construct empire; at times they were invited, and thus they created empire by invitation. Some invitations were genuine requests, and others were dubious and masked an intention to use force to establish spheres of influence.
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