"Subtle Imperialism’ is the kind that many private and public institutions carry out daily in order to advance the process of greater economic integration by the developed countries (mainly the G-8) with the rest of the world, especially the underdeveloped and semi-developed nations. The IMF with its austerity measures for example is exercising subtle form of imperialism and it has been doing so for the past sixty years with success for finance capital.
The World Bank providing loans for infrastructural development in Africa, Latin America and Asia so that multinational corporations can exploit mineral resources, timber, etc. is another form of ‘subtle imperialism’, because it can be explained as economic modernization. Any form that involves financial, political, or cultural institutions by the advanced country seeking to gain economic, political, or strategic advantage with the intent to impose some form of hegemony in an underdeveloped or semi-developed country is a form of ‘subtle imperialism’. Not only is there no colonization involved in subtle imperialism, but the subtle imperialist nation makes the case that it is acting for the broader welfare of the nation it is seeking to exploit, impose hegemony and deprive it of its sovereignty"............LINK
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