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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 2003
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the commercial advancements of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) into the African regional media markets, focusing mostly on the SABC's Africa-oriented channels, SABC Africa and Africa2Africa, as a case study.
Abstract: This article examines the commercial advancements of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) into the African regional media markets. In this examination, the focus is mostly on the SABC's Africa-orientated channels, SABC Africa and Africa2Africa, as a case study. The article posits that the SABC's regional commercial expansion is paradoxical in the sense that it is both advantageous
and disadvantageous at the same time. At the theoretical level, the article identifies some limitations to applying theoretical and analytical frameworks such as the dependency paradigm, media and cultural imperialism in explaining regional expansionism driven by Southern-based national media organisations.
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TL;DR: The ascendancy of German musical culture in the United States began with American musicians' importation and performance of scores by famous German composers in the 1820s and 1830s, and continued throughout the century as waves of German-speaking immigrant musicians played leading roles in the establishment of performing ensembles.
Abstract: Receptivity to the cultural and musical values of Western Europe, especially the German-speaking lands, laid the foundation for the growth of classical music in the United States throughout the nineteenth century. The ascendancy of German musical culture in the United States began with American musicians’ importation and performance of scores by famous German composers in the 1820s and 1830s. The rise continued throughout the century as waves of German-speaking immigrant musicians played leading roles in the establishment of performing ensembles. Prominent critics such as John Sullivan Dwight, Richard Storrs Willis, and Theodore Hagen bolstered the efforts of these organizations by roundly applauding their performances of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, and others. Moreover, as political historian Jessica Gienow-Hecht has recently argued, the establishment of foundational components of the United States’ musical infrastructure, including the solidification of a canonical symphonic repertoire, was the result of a “soft diplomacy” rooted in an aggressive agenda of German cultural expansionism. 1 It is easy, then, for us to conceive of the world of classical music in the nineteenth-century United States as a sponge perpetually absorbing musical
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TL;DR: The failure of the Constitutional Treaty and the Lisbon Treaty has revealed that European integration is in a crisis as mentioned in this paper, which affects not only the political integration, but also the economic integration.
Abstract: European integration is in a crisis. This crisis affects not only the political integration, as has been revealed by the failure of the Constitutional Treaty and the Lisbon Treaty.
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TL;DR: In addition, expansionist rhetoric helped to legitimate violence against so-called “Indians” overseas, as well as authorize American intervention and commercial intrusion into underdeveloped environments and economies.
Abstract: Following the Revolution, the United States merchant marine and whaling fleet sent thousands of young American men into the world. Far outnumbering tourists, travelers, and missionaries, sailors represented the predominant face and voice of the fledgling nation abroad. A survey of the journals and correspondence they kept while laboring overseas provides ample evidence of how working men thought about the wider world and their own country’s place within it. And when seafarers rendered intercultural contact, they often depended, in part, upon the use of Indian comparatives derived from domestic popular culture. Frontier language and the discourses of civilization and savagery became one means by which American men comprehended the otherwise baffling novelty and diversity they encountered while abroad. In addition, expansionist rhetoric helped to legitimate violence against so-called “Indians” overseas, as well as authorize American intervention and commercial intrusion into underdeveloped environments and economies. As such, mariners—a large population of mobile Americans—provide a valuable entryway into current efforts to resituate the history of the early republic within a more global framework.
5 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze China as an emerging economic power with special reference to Pakistan-US relations and find that Pakistan tilted wholeheartedly toward its all-weather friend China for its diplomatic moral, political, and military support.
Abstract: Washington established relations with Pakistan immediately after the independence when Moscow was diplomatically avoided by Pakistan elite policymakers to opt for one of the superpowers as a need for the Cold War. The article aims to analyses Beijing as an emerging economic power with special reference to Pak–US relations. During and after the Cold War period both the USA and Pakistan have close relations to deter communist expansionism in South Asia and Central Asia but post 9/11 when the US decided to overthrow the Taliban government in Afghanistan, Pakistan aligned its policies and strategies with Washington. Despite Pakistan’s huge sacrifices and loss of life and economic suffering, the US still doubts Pakistan’s intentions. In this backdrop, Pakistan tilted wholeheartedly toward its all-weather friend China for its diplomatic moral, political, and military support.
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