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Expansionism
About: Expansionism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 979 publications have been published within this topic receiving 11169 citations.
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01 Jan 1991
TL;DR: The US has resisted political developments in neighboring states that pose unacceptable threats to its national security as discussed by the authors, and the US concern about Central America has been exacerbated by the region's political turbulence since World War II, dramatized by radical leftist movements.
Abstract: Central America — the scene of civil war upheavals, Soviet expansionism, Cuban intervention and United States anxiety — merits attention as a unique arena in which to assess superpower cooperation in conflict management. This is so for at least three reasons. First, Central America’s geographic location makes it a high priority in US security policy. Like other great powers, the US has resisted political developments in neighboring states that pose unacceptable threats to its national security.1 US concern about Central America has been exacerbated by the region’s political turbulence since World War II, dramatized by radical leftist movements and the emergence in 1979 of Sandinista Nicaragua as a major US security issue. Until the Sandinista’s stunning election loss in February 1990, the US viewed Nicaragua, like Cuba, as an opportunity for Soviet expansionism.
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01 Jul 2014
TL;DR: This paper argued that democratic and republican forces did not use the minority problem as a direct tool for German expansionism in Eastern Europe, while acknowledging that certain revisionist objectives were indeed pursued by Weimar governments.
Abstract: The protection of minorities in Central Europe became a deeply controversial issue in the aftermath of World War One. The presence of a sizeable German minority in what had become Polish territory following the Versailles settlement played into the hands of political extremists on both sides when the German anti-Weimar right and Polish nationalists saw an opportunity to use the minority issue as a tool for revisionism. Whilst acknowledging that certain revisionist objectives were indeed pursued by Weimar governments, this article argues that democratic and republican forces did not use the minority problem as a direct tool for German expansionism in Eastern Europe.
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01 Jan 1999
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01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: One of the most significant developments in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century has been the emergence of ecocriticism as a new transdisciplinary paradigm in literary and cultural studies as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: One of the most significant developments in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century has been the emergence of ecocriticism as a new transdisciplinary paradigm in literary and cultural studies. In a most general sense, ecocriticism represents a response of the humanities to the environmental crisis which modern civilization has brought about in its uncontrolled economic and technological expansionism. In addition to categories like class, race, gender, ethnicity, or sexuality, nature (together with related terms such as environment, place, earth, planet) has become a central category of cultural studies—albeit a strangely hybrid category located somewhere between world and text, realist concept and discursive construct.
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01 Mar 1990
TL;DR: For decades, the process of competition has been conducted without opening up Soviet society or its economy to any great extent to international life as discussed by the authors, and internal constraints have had but a feeble influence on foreign policy.
Abstract: Like the Russia of the tsars, the USSR locates its identity in opposition to the West. The dynamic of Soviet foreign policy lies in a competition, even if peaceful, against a Western rival that is at one and the same time enemy and model. For decades, the process of competition has been conducted without opening up Soviet society or its economy lo any great extent to international life. At the same time, internal constraints have had but a feeble influence on foreign policy. Analytical schemes that are founded on the hypothesis of an ultimate objective of the Soviet regime, be it revolutionary or state expansionism, now reveal their inadequacy. But the interpretation around the concept of convergence with Western societies is not more convincing. The Gorbachev experience certainly affects the traditional approach to Russia's relations with the outside world and confronts the Soviet system with increasing challenges, both at home and in power relations. The search of a new identity, freed of old communist ...
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