Neocolonialism
![Kwame Nkrumah (pictured on a Soviet postage stamp) is a Ghanaian politician who coined the term](/Images/godic/202501/29/1989_CPA_61010008.jpg")
![Neo-colonialism: U.S. President Harry Truman and Mohammad Mosaddeq, the Iranian Prime Minister in 1951. Two years later, the Persian nationalisation of the petroleum of Iran was halted with Operation Ajax, a British–American coup d' état, which deposed P.M. Mossadeq on 19 August 1953, and reinstated the deposed, absolute monarchy of the Pahlavi family.](/Images/godic/202501/29/Mossadegh_US210008.jpg")
![Exotic animals such as the giraffe, caught and sold by Somali merchants, were very popular commodities in Ming Dynasty China.](/Images/godic/202501/29/ShenDuGiraffePainting0008.jpg")
Neocolonialism, neo-colonialism or neo-imperialism is the geopolitical practice of using capitalism, business globalization, and cultural imperialism to influence a country, in lieu of either direct military control (imperialism) or indirect political control (hegemony).