Expansionism

About: Expansionism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 979 publications have been published within this topic receiving 11169 citations.

The imperialism of race: class, rights and patronage in the Philippine city

Abstract: Decisions by the US Supreme Court at the end of the Spanish American War facilitated US colonial expansionism by laying the foundations for a two-tiered system of rights in the Philippines. In tandem with establishing the legal boundaries of citizenship, politicians and media extended a race-based system of governance through speeches and graphic caricatures that racialised Filipinos as underdeveloped and threatening. Both the law and a patron-client system served to create a new Filipino elite that collaborated with the colonial authorities and entrenched cultural imperialism; the racial patterning of white American/Filipino relations was then transduced into class relations among Filipinos that continue to stratify Philippine society, with the Filipino elite replacing the colonial administrators in this two-tiered system of rights. Today, this racial categorisation and organisation of people continues to appear in popular imagery; and the replacement of race by class in a rights-based bifurcation of Phi...

The Reagan Presidency and Foreign Policy

Abstract: Ronald Reagan, like his predecessor Jimmy Carter, came to the presidency with little, if any, foreign policy experience, and with strong convictions about what was wrong with United States foreign policy. Reagan was convinced that the US had grown weak under Carter, in spite of the fact that Carter himself had undertaken a defence buildup in his last two years. The new President was determined not only that the US should undertake a $1.5 trillion defence buildup over a five-year period to correct the imbalance with the USSR, but also that it would deal firmly with the ‘the Evil Empire’ and resist every Soviet effort to expand its influence. The supposed loss of elan and patriotism at home was to be replaced by a reborn pride in the US as a great and good nation which would provide renewed leadership in meeting the challenge of Communist ideology and Soviet expansionism.

The World Map and the world of Goethe's Weltliteratur

Abstract: This paper examines the meaning of 'World' in Goethe's concept of World-Literature. It argues that Goethe builds on a far-reaching geographical imagination that was taking careful account of the latest trends in European expansionism. This is evident in the works of many of his contemporaries, with whom he associated closely, and whose ideas he held in great admiration. It is also evident in his interest in cartography. The idea of World in World-Literature finds its way indirectly in to a number of major works, where it enters into dialogue with some of the most problematic aspects of European expansionism.

The European Crisis of March–April 1939: The Romanian Dimension

Abstract: In mid-march 1939 Romania, a country which had hitherto played only a secondary role in European politics, was thrown right into the centre of the international political arena. The news of a German ultimatum allegedly received by the government in Bucharest triggered the open and more militant policy of resistance pursued by the western powers in the last six months of peace. As important elements of the Anglo-French strategy against Nazi expansionism, the countries of eastern and southeastern Europe acquired special importance for the governments in London and Paris. In MarchApril 1939, within less than a month, the independence of three states in this region was publicly guaranteed by the western powers. British and French considerations in granting political guarantees to small states at the other end of Europe have been the subject of considerable research. Similar, but more limited investigations have also been carried out on the foreign policies of Poland and Greece during the same period. The foreign policy of Romania, the third recipient of the British and French guarantees and the catalyst for a new policy in eastern and south-eastern Europe, has received only marginal attention. The object of this study is to bring new elements to the understanding of the part played by Romania in the international crisis of March 1939 and its aftermath.