Expansionism

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

Physician Manpower Expansionism: A Policy Review

Abstract: A lack of national health goals has allowed physician manpower policy to be dominated by an expansionist philosophy. Scarce resources have been channeled into the production of specialist ...

The Popular Universities and the Origins of Aprismo, 1921-1924

Abstract: A multitude of events and currents of thought influenced the formation and rise of the Peruvian Aprista Movement: the Mexican and Russian revolutions, the university reform movement, the emergence of organized workers' groups, the rise of foreign economic expansionism, and the impact of the ideologies of Marxism, socialism, and nationalism. Most of the studies of the Aprista Movement, however, have tended to emphasize its intellectual indebtedness to the university reform movement, with little attention paid to the immediate and proximate way in which the Peruvian university students reacted to the reform movement. Between the beginning of the university reform movement in Peru in 1919 and the appearance of the Aprista Movement in 1924 several important events occurred that decisively shifted the university reform movement into politics and stamped the Peruvian movement with several original characteristics distinguishing it from other university-based reform movements in the rest of Latin America. The most significant of these events was the founding of the Gonzalez Prada Popular Universities for workers by Haya de la Torre and his companion students at San Marcos University in 1921. The purpose of the centers originally was to further the aims of the university reform movement by bringing the benefits of culture and learning to the poor and uneducated. When President Augusto B. Legulia suppressed these centers in 1924 and exiled most of the leaders, Haya and his companions turned their cultural movement into the Aprista Movement and later into the Peruvian Aprista Party.'

Foreign Investment and Indigenous Peoples: Options for Promoting Equilibrium between Economic Development and Indigenous Rights

Abstract: Introduction 628 I. The Impacts of FDI and Its Historical Analogs on Indigenous Peoples over Time 633 A. Conflicts in the Exploration and Colonialism Eras 633 1. Spanish Conquests in the Americas 633 2. Anglo-American Colonialism and Expansionism 635 B. FDI on Indigenous Lands in the Modern Era 637 1. Investments in Latin America 637 2. Investments in the Asia-Pacific Region: FDI in the Philippines 640 3. Investments in Developed Countries 645 II. Recent Progress Toward Protecting Indigenous Rights, and How It Falls Short of What Is Needed 653 A. Progress at the Domestic Level 654 1. Domestic Indigenous-Rights Protections 654 2. Alien Tort Statute Jurisprudence 657 B. Progress at the International Level 660 1. The Inter-American Human Rights System 660 2. Guidelines, Standards & Model Contractual Provisions 661 3. U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 664 III. Proposed Next Steps 669 A. The Possibility of Converting UNDRIP Wholesale into a Binding Convention 670 B. Measures Targeted at the Private Sector 673 1. The Basis for Applying UNDRIP to the Private Sector .... 673 2. Ways to Make UNDRIP Binding on Private Actors and Give Indigenous Peoples an Effective Private Right of Action 674

Toward a Definition of Caribbean American Regionalism: Contesting Anglo-America's Caribbean Designs in Mary Seacole and Sui Sin Far

Abstract: This essay brings into dialogue discrete conversations in Caribbean studies, international political economy (IPE), and hemispheric American studies. Contextualizing these fields through the trope of hospitality, a figure of particular significance in Caribbean-U.S. relations, the author charts a field of writing he terms Caribbean American Regionalism, which is not bound necessarily to the geographic or ideological commitments of U.S. regionalist traditions even as it acknowledges and extends from innovative scholarship about them. The essay focuses on the role of women's voices in such a regionalist, Caribbean American imaginary, specifically Jamaican Creole healer and boarding-house operator Mary Seacole and the Eurasian writer Sui Sin Far. Although from distinct epochs and locations, Seacole and Sui Sin Far-as migrant laboring women of color in the Caribbean American region-are affected by, and their texts keenly respond to, developments in Caribbean-U.S. relations during the last half of the nineteenth century. This is particularly so in light of the dependence of corporations like the Panama Railroad Company and United Fruit Company on commodities produced by, and on the commodifying the bodies of, laboring West Indian women in hospitality industries. Seacole and Sui Sin Far, by marking (in)hospitable relations in the Caribbean American region in sites of hospitality where they reside and work-the Jamaican creole boarding-house and tourist hotel, respectively-expose the (in)hospitality of industry and the industry of (in)hospitality sponsoring nineteenth-century U. S. expansionism.

The Great Despoliation: Environmental Themes in American Frontier History

Abstract: I BELIEVE ENVIRONMENTAL themes deserve more attention in American history than they have hitherto received. Environmental history can be a window to a clearer image of the past and can offer us unique perspectives on generally accepted historical concepts of unlimited growth, frontier expansionism, and the rapid use of nonrenewable natural resources.1 The environmental theme goes back beyond discovery, but my analysis begins with the environmental impact of the European discovery of America, or, as it is now called, "the Columbian exchange."2 Even at this time we have eyewitness