Imperialist power politics shift from limited national goals to limitless, unpredictable pursuit of power
Evidence
Nothing was so characteristic of power politics in the imperialist era than this shift from localized, limited and therefore predictable goals of national interest to the limitless pursuit of power after power that could roam and lay waste the whole globe with no certain nationally and territorially prescribed purpose and hence with no predictable direction. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 28
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Defines the hallmark mechanism separating imperialist from nation-state power politics; core toolkit concept.
Related
- Imperialism replaces limited national-interest goals with limitless, directionless power expansion. (similarity 0.85)
- Imperialism newly made power and violence themselves the conscious aim of the state (similarity 0.84)
- American global power was not achieved through deliberate imperialist foreign policy. (similarity 0.81)
- Totalitarian movements, unlike Fascism, must never achieve definite goals (similarity 0.81)
- Expansion as permanent political aim originates in business speculation, not political thought (similarity 0.80)
- Imperialism differed from adventure by presenting unlimited expansion as a permanent common national interest (similarity 0.80)
- Imperialism keeps colonial administration separate from but controlled by national institutions (similarity 0.79)
- Movements aim to destroy the state, not merely seize its machine (similarity 0.79)