Atlas de Imperios

An empire - from the Latin imperium - is, in the strictest terms, a multireligious, multicultural and multiethnic state that has obtained part of its territory by conquest and that maintains its expansion as long as there are no external or internal pressures of any kind. By extension, empire can refer to the historical stage where an ethnic group or nation developed a characteristic policy, or to the power that imperial power exercises. At the beginning of the twentieth century the term imperialism acquired the pejorative connotation that it currently has, in part thanks to Lenin, who stated: "The war of 1914-1918 has been, by both belligerent sides, an imperialist war, a war for the distribution of world". The last state to officially hold the title of empire was Japan. It changed its name after the drastic change in its domestic policy after the Second World War. In the framework of the Cold War, a new era began where the word empire was replaced by more politically correct terms, such as 'national security' or 'bloc positioning', and 'imperialisms', which have little to do with the concept classic of the term at hand. That's where the United States came into being, which closes this work; in recent years it has been described as an empire due to its warmongering policy and the enormous pressure it exerts from its economic dominance.