Neo-Colonial Colonialism

(Congo as a model)

Abstract

The international situation after the end of the Second World War was characterized by the emergence of two new powers, the United States of America and the Soviet Union, in the form of two large blocs sharing the world as two camps: the capitalist western bloc and the communist eastern bloc, and there is no doubt that the open and hidden competition between these two camps to gain more supremacy and to secure strategic, economic and ideological interests For each of them, which led to the emergence of the phenomenon of new colonialism with the same goals of old colonialism, but through hidden and indirect means. As an example of the new colonialism, the Congo occupied a distinguished importance in the political affairs of the world, especially among the main poles, namely Belgium, Europe and the United States, which led to the struggle for the country's independence from foreign powers that wanted to continue to exploit and control it, so the research material came to include an attempt to shed light on The phenomenon of "neo-colonial colonialism, the Congo as a model" because of its great importance in identifying the features of this colonial phenomenon. The research was divided into an introduction, three axes, and a conclusion. The first axis came with the title “The New Colonial Colonialism, Its Concept and Methods,” which shed light on the concept of new colonial colonialism and its methods in various fields, including the economic, military, cultural and intellectual sphere, while the second axis, titled “Economic Transformations” And its effect on the transition to neo-colonial colonialism, "the most important economic developments and the emergence of the two camps, the Western was led by the United States and the Eastern led by the Soviet Union, and the hidden and overt conflict between these two camps and the economic developments in the United States that pushed it to secure its interests by practicing colonialism in its various forms, while the third axis was Entitled "the new colonial colonization of the Congo", in which the discussion was about the new colonialism of the Congo, which was practiced by Belgium after the independence of the Congo in 1960 through various methods, whether economic through companies, providing aid, or stirring up problems within the country itself, in which the United States had a major role in that to protect their interests.