Expansionism

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

Expansionismo brasileiro e subimperialismo

Abstract: Este artigo aborda a nocao de subimperialismo na compreensao do expansionismo brasileiro. O objetivo e apontar para os limites do conceito de Ruy Mauro Marini, arriscando comentarios sobre o capitalismo monopolista no Brasil. This paper intends to discuss the notion of subimperialism in the understanding of Brazilian expansionism. The objective is to point to the limits of the concept of Ruy Mauro Marini, making comments about the monopolistic capitalism in Brazil. Normal 0 21 false false false PT-BR X-NONE X-NONE

In Defense of Comparisons: Russia and the Transmutations of Imperialism in International Law

Abstract: Abstract While Western imperialism played a crucial role in the creation of modern international law, it is ever more important to analyze the engagements of non-Western imperialist powers with the field so as to comprehend the changing global patterns of legalized violence and expansionism. In this Essay, we analyze Russia's international legal arguments in support of its use of force against Ukraine through the lens of inter-imperial rivalry. In so doing, we call for strict scrutiny of the deployments of jus ad bellum equally by all imperial powers.

The Southern Flank: Successes and Failures of Eisenhower Administration Anti-Communist Policy in Iraq and Iran

Abstract: ........................................................................................................................ i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................... iii BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ............................................................................................ iv TABLE OF CONTENTS .....................................................................................................v INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................1 CHAPTER ONE: IRAQ: FROM FRAGILE ALLY TO REVOLUTIONARY CHAOS ...9 IRAQI BACKGROUND POLITICS FROM 1914 TO 1954 ..................................9 THE BIRTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE IRAQI COMMUNIST PARTY FROM 1936 TO 1952 ............................................................................................15 RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN WITH THE MONARCHY 1952-1958 ......................................................................................21 ANTI-COMMUNIST ACTIONS BY THE WEST IN IRAQ 1955-1958 IN PERSPECTIVE......................................................................................................24 THE REVOLT OF 1958 AND ITS COMMUNIST SUPPORT ...........................27 US REACTION TO THE 1958 REVOLUTION ..................................................30 ANALYSIS OF THE EFFICACY AND EFFECTS OF US ANTI-COMMUNIST ACTIVITY .............................................................................................................31 CHAPTER TWO: THE SHAH AND EISENHOWER—FEARS OF SOCIALISM IN IRAN ..................................................................................................................................34 THE SHAH, IRAN IN 1950 AND THE RISE OF MOSSADEQ .........................35 COMMUNISIM IN IRAN IN 1950 ......................................................................36

A postcolonial critique of mental health : Empire and psychiatric expansionism

Abstract: With growing calls from the World Health Organization and the Movement for Global Mental Health to ‘scale up’ Western mental health provision to meet a supposed ‘treatment gap’ in the Global South, this chapter offers a timely postcolonial critique of the historical imposition of such medical practices and discourse. The chapter begins by defining and explaining postcolonialism and the rare engagements with such theory in previous mental health literature. This is followed by a summary of the ‘official narrative’ of Western mental health interventions in colonial and ‘post-colonial’ societies which forwards the position that psychiatry’s social control function in colonial times was less than systematic, and that their work has ultimately had a positive impact on the local population. The claims from medical scholars that psychiatric interventions in the Global South are benevolent, moral, and serve no economic benefit to Western imperialism does not stand up to close scrutiny.

Sublimated Expansionism? Living Space Ideas in Nordic Small-State Geopolitics

Abstract: Abstract In intellectual histories of geography as well as in international relations, geopolitics is usually the business of great powers, understood as the expansion of hard power through territorial control. However, the existence of a ‘ Geopolitik of the weak’ has also been theorised, premised on the ability of smaller states – such as the Nordic countries – to secure their survival through a wider range of policy instruments. In this chapter, we analyse key themes in the work of two Nordic geographical thinkers deeply concerned with the place and status of their home countries in the era of high modernity – Rudolf Kjellén and Gudmund Hatt. Relying upon their scholarly works as well as relevant public debates circa 1905–1945, we trace the ‘small-state geopoliticking’ of Hatt and Kjellén, identifying three key characteristics of their style of small-state geopolitics: (1) determinism is qualified by voluntarism; (2) space is complemented by future; and (3) external expansion is sublimated into internal progress. In its reconceptualisation of living space as primarily concerned with existential survival as premised upon future progress, rather than outward-oriented territorial expansion, small-state geopolitics emerges as a highly situated, somewhat quaint but nonetheless significant element in Nordic theorising of geography.