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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 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the notion of economic sustainability from an ecological modernization perspective, and show how the expansion of extractive clusters reinforces the local competition for water, energy, land, work, and living conditions.
Abstract: This article discusses the notion of economic sustainability from an ecological modernization perspective. The main thesis is that the pursuit of sustainability may reinforce socio-ecological conflicts. In this context, we propose that ecological modernization is based on four interrelated characteristics of sustainability, which, jointly, increase the pressure on local ecosystems: (i) land achievement or territorial expansionism and (ii) unequal environmental role distribution, both of which are territorial orientations; (iii) sustainable economic entrepreneurship and (iv) goal-oriented sustainability, both of which are motivations for social action. The latter has a paradoxical effect, which becomes apparent when sustainable extractive enterprises acquire regional extensions and multiply the socio-ecological conflicts at the local level. Applied to the mining industry in Chile, the analytical model reveals the necessity to redefine sustainability from a multi-scalar perspective by showing how the expansion of extractive clusters reinforces the local competition for water, energy, land, work, and living conditions. The main argument disentangles the notion of sustainability as a normative referent – an ideal state of sustainability that should be pursued socially – from sustainability as factual phenomena, which are the different forms to materialize sustainability in a particular place and time. This distinction allows us to propose the thesis of the depoliticization of the socio-ecological conflicts associated with the search for sustainability in the framework of global productive restructuration.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the evolution of evolutionary theory through a number of historical phases, from indifference (in the first hundred years), to criticism, to enthusiasm and expansionism, and conclude with some comments on the present state of the evolutionary debate.
Abstract: Discussion of Darwinian evolutionary theory by philosophers has gone through a number of historical phases, from indifference (in the first hundred years), to criticism (in the 1960s and 70s), to enthusiasm and expansionism (since about 1980). This paper documents these phases and speculates about what, philosophically speaking, underlies them. It concludes with some comments on the present state of the evolutionary debate, where rapid and important changes within evolutionary theory may be passing by unnoticed by philosophers.
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: The concept of eloquence d'apparat was defined in the Academies, the judicial institutions, and the civic life in france at the end of the 17th century as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: This thesis aims at defining the concept of ceremonial eloquence (eloquence d'apparat) on the basis of its manifestations in the academies, the judicial institutions, and the civic life in france at the end of the 17th century. The work accounts for the intuitive recognition of ceremonial similarities governing various oratorical practices. A physical setting richly decorated and specifically organized for an occasion,a selcect yet numerous public these are among the elements that re-inforce the work of rhetoric. Ceremonial discourse must adapt itself to the social context and must meet the aesthetic expectations of the public and the institution from which it springs. In ceremonial discourse, each institution finds the expression of its values and a self-satisfying image that permits it to proclaim its own grandeur. The man of letters, the parliamentarian and the municipal magistrate all seek to found their social privileges on the concept of professional merit. From the point of view of language and politics, paris and the provinces diverge, but they remain united in an ideology of expansionism of french culture.
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TL;DR: The underlying rationale of the arms race between Britain and Germany shining through in those different positions on legitimate (military) policy aims has been explored in this paper, where the authors explore the underlying rationale behind the arms competition between the two countries, beyond the visible symbols of the Dreadnought and the Two-Power standard.
Abstract: British politicians often argued that Britain maintained its navy only in order to secure its own survival by keeping sea communications open, while Germany in no real need of a powerful navy, threatened this legitimate British policy-goal by pursuing expansionist politics German leaders, emboldened and a little dazzled by the tremendous industrial and economic success of the newly unified Reich, held that Britain was maintaining its economic dominance in the Empire by military means and thus blocking the progress Germany hoped to make in its aspiration to parity status and economic prosperity, with all that that entailed This paper will explore the underlying rationale of the arms race between Britain and Germany shining through in those different positions on legitimate (military) policy aims It will go beyond the visible symbols, as it were, of the Dreadnought and the Two-Power standard These very concrete matters will also be dealt with here but, more importantly, this essay is meant to g
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01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: Kennedy and his advisers saw General Charles de Gaulle as the most serious obstacle to their “Grand Design,” a set of policies designed to guide Western Europe toward political unity and economic and strategic coordination with the United States as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Kennedy and his advisers saw General Charles de Gaulle as the most serious obstacle to their “Grand Design,” a set of policies designed to guide Western Europe toward political unity and economic and strategic coordination with the United States. JFK sought to create an “Atlantic partnership” in which the US and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies would share the burden of supplying economic aid to the developing world and form a united military front against Soviet expansionism. De Gaulle’s determination to restore French independence and grandeur made him an unwilling partner. American officials believed his intransigence was rooted in an outdated and excessive form of French nationalism. Since France lacked sufficient forces and resources to meet the general’s alleged hegemonic ambition, he appeared a “tragic” figure, or, as Under Secretary of State George W. Ball put it, “the brilliant anachronism who disrupted Europe by undertaking a tour de force beyond the reach of his extraordinary abilities.”1
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