Sphere of influence

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Sphere of Influence

In international politics, the claim by a state to exclusive or predominant control over a foreign area or territory.

May, 1985

The agreement between Great Britain and Germany, the first to make use of the term, provided for a separation and a defenition of their respective sphere of influence in the territories on the Gulf of Guineas.

July 1, 1890

The agreement was followedby many of similar nature, of which the article VII of the agreement between Great Britain and Germany.

Monroe Doctrine (1823)

US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.

conflicts between Rome and Carthage

led to the Punic war

peripheral

on the edge, not important

World War I

spheres of influence in the legal sense Lost much of their importance.

aftermath of world war 2

the Soviet Union created the sphere of influence as a political fact in the territories of the nation in the eastern Europe.

Articles I-IV

the two powers engage that neither will interfere with any sphere of influence assigned to the others by this artcle.

1880s

when the colonial expansion of the European powers in Asia was nearing its completion.


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