Colonial victories against direct colonial rule have been compromised by indirect rule (neocolonialism) exercised through economic control by Western European and U.S. American transnational enterprises and multinational organizations
International groups or institutions that involve multiple countries working together, often to make rules or decisions that affect global trade and politics.
Transnational enterprises(as used in economics and political science)
Large companies that operate in many different countries and often have more power and wealth than some governments.
indirect rule(postcolonial theory)
A form of continued dominance over formerly colonized states achieved through economic rather than direct administrative control
neocolonialism(Distinguished from classical, directly administered colonial rule of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries)
Indirect rule over formally independent African nation-states effected through economic control by Western European and U.S. American transnational capitalist enterprises and multinational organizations ostensibly providing advice and aid
The heuristic value of the concept of postcolonial is not to be underappreciated, for the various instances in which the successes of defeating the classical, directly administered colonial ventures in Africa of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been compromised by situations of indirect rule, or neocolonialism, effected through economic control of the new African nation-states by Western European and U.S. American transnational capitalist enterprises and multinational organizations an