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


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TL;DR: In this article, the impact of pantokrator-images of God on ecclesial thinking is investigated, and the paracletic notion of compassionate being-with is developed within the framework of practical theological thinking.
Abstract: Postcolonialism and decolonising campaigns are expressions of human pain on the level of identity confusion (inferiority), ideological abuse (cultural discrimination) and structural oppression (imperialistic exploitation). The slogan ‘Black Pain is a White Commodity’ in the #MustFall campaigns is critically analysed within the framework of postcolonial theory and imperialistic power categories. The basic hypothesis of the article is that in early Christianity, pantokrator images of God were influenced by iconography stemming mostly from the Roman Emperor cult and Egyptian mythology. The power (omnipotence) and dominiumship of God directly and indirectly played a role in Christian imperialistic thinking regarding the expansion of the Kingdom of God and missio Dei strategies during times of European and colonial expansionism. In order to address the quest for ‘moving beyond’ in postcolonial theory, the impact of pantokrator-images of God on ecclesial thinking is researched. In order to contribute to sustainability and stability within the complexity of cultural diversity and current civil unrest on campuses in South Africa, the paracletic notion of compassionate being-with is developed within the framework of practical theological thinking. Instead of a Caesar-depiction, the theological notion of passio Dei is proposed: the decolonialising (post-imperialising) God.

10 citations

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TL;DR: This paper examined the environmental, ecological, and sociopolitical impacts of the current China-Africa engagement within the context of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis, which posits that an inverted U-shape relationship exists between economic growth and environmental quality.
Abstract: This paper, which is conceptually located at the intersection of trade–economics, resource politics, and environmental assessment, is a narrative-analytic review of Chinese economic expansionism in Africa especially its quest for the continent’s natural resources in the past 10 years. We seek to examine the environmental, ecological, and sociopolitical impacts of the current China–Africa engagement within the context of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. The EKC hypothesis posits that an inverted U-shape relationship exists between economic growth and environmental quality. This implies that the quality of a country’s environment will initially decrease due to its economic growth, but will soon start to improve when the country attains a certain threshold level of economic development/income per capita. We argue that by virtue of its ‘omission’ and/or ‘commission’ factors, the EKC hypothesis can be misleading if not dangerous. Using the case study of China’s engagement with Cameroon in the ...

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TL;DR: Based on earlier published descriptions by missionaries and others, the US Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842, under Charles Wilkes, expected to find a fertile tropical garden as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Based on earlier published descriptions by missionaries and others, the US Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842, under Charles Wilkes, expected to find Hawai‘‘i a fertile tropical garden. Instead, they found a significantly westernized climatic borderland between tropical and temperate zones. Wilkes’’s report is a case of landscape creation. It represented Hawai‘‘i in terms of comparison to American readers’’ experience and expectations. In presenting Hawaiian landscapes as distinct from the tropics, the expedition made the islands seem more inviting to American expansionism.

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TL;DR: The anti-expansionist movement of the quadrennium which followed the Civil War has been studied extensively as mentioned in this paper. But no thorough investigation has yet been made of the antiexpansionists movement.
Abstract: DESPITE the multitude of published studies of the Johnson administration, no thorough investigation has yet been made of the anti-expansionist movement of the quadrennium which followed the Civil War. The domestic problems of those crucial and chaotic years have attracted far more historical interest than the foreign problems. The effect of those domestic problems upon the movement for the acquisition of foreign territory has not been adequately analyzed, though it forms an important chapter in the history of the period. Such studies as the article by Professor Theodore Clarke Smith, "Expansion after the Civil War, 1865-1871," which appeared in the Political Science Quarterly more than forty years ago, and the more recent essay of Joe Patterson Smith on The Republican Expansionists of the Early Reconstruction Era' need to be supplemented by an analysis of the reverse side of the expansionist movement. It can only be suggested here that the anti-expansionism of the post-Civil War period contains the true origins of the anti-imperialism of the Spanish War period. Moreover, it may throw light upon problems which will confront the United States in the field of foreign relations after the present war. As long as the Civil War raged, the lust for acquisition of foreign territory which had been a marked feature of the American character in the ante-bellum period lay dormant. The Republican party, overwhelmingly dominant at the close of the war, was traditionally anti-expansionist. Before the war, Republicans had effectually blocked several schemes of President James Buchanan and the Southern slavocracy to add foreign territory to the Union.' One of the reasons why Lincoln as President-elect in 1860 opposed the Crittenden compromise was his fear that, if a specific parallel of latitude were fixed as the boundary between the slave states and the free states, "a year will not pass till we shall have to take Cuba as a condition upon which they [the slave states] will stay in the Union."4 The secession of the Southern states, the chief motivators of

10 citations

Dissertation
01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the wartime experience of the League of Nations and analyze the League's ability to serve as a touchstone for international political, economic and social cooperation in a period of intense crisis for liberal internationalism.
Abstract: This thesis explores the wartime experience of the League of Nations It analyses the League’s ability to serve as a touchstone for international political, economic and social cooperation in a period of intense crisis for liberal internationalism It demonstrates that the League’s political identity retained a relevance to a world at war, despite the failure of its diplomatic role The thesis chronicles the efforts of League officials and of member states as they strove to maintain, in the League’s international civil service, a nucleus of liberal idealism in contradistinction to fascist expansionism It determines the impact of geo-political factors on the integrity of the League apparatus and documents how the League’s ideological baggage determined its wartime social and economic work The League did not remain a static entity in its final years and this work highlights the adaptation of League officials to an evolving political landscape with the League’s wartime experience providing a bridge between pre-war internationalism and its post-war variant The successes and failures of the League’s political and technical organs were a reflection of the course of international affairs with its wartime history serving as a barometer of the diminished Eurocentrism and rising Atlanticism of international cooperation This period was emblematic of the challenges of internationalism with the League’s international civil service splintering under the weight of internal and external pressures The League’s wartime experience also underscored the reality that internationalism was a contested concept The League’s brand of internationalism, with its aim of universalising the values of liberal democracy, was increasingly out-of-step with a war-weary preoccupation with security League officials fought to preserve technocratic unity between the old organisation and the UNO within an international order increasingly dominated by the two emerging superpowers; neither of which enjoyed a straightforward relationship with the League of Nations

10 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202374
2022172
202126
202038
201928
201835