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Decolonization —that is, the end of European imperial rule— is one of the major aspects of post-1945 global politics. Scholars have provided various definitions of the term. Whereas a group of scholars defines decolonization as “the process whereby an imperial power gives up its formal authority over its colonies” (Best et al., 2008: 81), Young and Kent (2013: xxv) call it “the ending of European control over large areas of the globe”. Thomas and Thompson (2018: 2) defines decolonization “a process that gathered momentum in the long Cold War cycle running from the 1940s to the early 1990s”.