expansionism
ਪਸਾਰ
definition
noun
the post-colonial critique of Western expansionism
the policy of territorial or economic expansion.
example
Outward 'expansionism' looked even more attractive, and political and military leaders increasingly talked of establishing a co-prosperity sphere in Asia.
The two leaders also discussed the plan to develop a national missile defense plan which China opposes as inviting military 'expansionism' , the sources said.
He is particularly good on the Fischer thesis that was at one time popular, of the war as the outcome of a premeditated program of German 'expansionism' .
By the 1890s the domestic frontier was exhausted, and 'expansionism' took Americans into territories overseas.
My books talk about communist 'expansionism' being turned back around the world with the help of Margaret Thatcher, the Pope, and many brave souls in Europe.
the need to oppose German 'expansionism'
The current edition has 236 pages, only about 20 of which deal with the 1920-1945 period, the height of Japanese 'expansionism' .
I also believed in the necessity of being frank about how I looked at them and their 'expansionism' and so forth.
The latter typically assessed the prospects for Communist 'expansionism' in different regions of the world.
Foreign policy concerns in the 1930s centered on Soviet and German 'expansionism' , which stimulated abortive efforts at Nordic defense cooperation.
He broke with the mainstream conservatism in the early 1960s, primarily over issues of foreign policy and military 'expansionism' .
France is no longer a knee-jerk supporter of the country's militarism and 'expansionism' .
It was pitched as an effort to stop Communist 'expansionism' .
Politics, he says, has ceased to gravitate around 'expansionism' and national glory.
But the enemy will pay dearly later, on top of what it is paying at present for its reckless policies of greed and 'expansionism' .
the post-colonial critique of Western 'expansionism'
The proper response to racism is not to encourage its victims to flee, much less flee to a country whose history, politics and 'expansionism' makes it a more dangerous place for those who are seeking refuge.
The Cold War - based on false assumptions of Soviet 'expansionism' - ended in 1991.
Looking for Western cash, wider global influence, and reassurance about Nato 'expansionism' , he could not have been more cooperative.
The Gadsden Purchase represents a point of intersection between mid-nineteenth-century commercial 'expansionism' and the debate over slavery.
The failure of strategy in electoral terms would give him a golden opportunity to identify his opponent with economic 'expansionism' .
One camp inclines toward automatic hostility to any American military intervention; the other veers toward an embrace of American 'expansionism' .
Its foreign policy, even in its 'expansionist' phase, always had a protectionist aim: the safeguarding of markets.
The company has always been aggressively 'expansionistic' .
Ideally, however, the very existence of the League would serve to ensure that aggressive states desisted from 'expansionist' actions.
A brilliant commander who gloried in battle, he was indeed an 'expansionist' .
It's difficult to picture those two countries fighting together, unless the impossible happens and the country becomes all militaristic and 'expansionistic' again.
They may fear the effects of cooperating with a state which is perceived as pursuing aggressive and 'expansionist' designs.
Are the terrorists of a nationalistic and 'expansionistic' bent?
The absence of any real systemic controls was bad enough but it was multiplied a thousand fold when combined with the military's 'expansionist' agenda.
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