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Expansionism

Expansionism refers to states obtaining greater territory through military empire-building or colonialism.[1][2]

The full extent of the empire of Alexander the Great, assembled in the 4th century BCE as he strove to conquer the lands of Asia and the Mediterranean

In the classical age of conquest moral justification for territorial expansion at the direct expense of another established polity (who often faced displacement, subjugation, slavery, rape and execution) was often as unapologetic as "because we can" treading on the philosophical grounds of might makes right.

As political conceptions of the nation state evolved, especially in reference to the inherent rights of the governed, more complex justifications arose. State-collapse anarchy, reunification or pan-nationalism are sometimes used to justify and legitimize expansionism when the explicit goal is to reconquer territories that have been lost or to take over ancestral lands.

Lacking a viable historical claim of this nature, would-be expansionists may instead promote ideologies of promised lands (such as manifest destiny or a religious destiny in the form of a Promised Land), perhaps tinged with a self-interested pragmatism that targeted lands will eventually belong to the potential invader anyway.[3]

Theories edit

Ibn Khaldun wrote that newly established dynasties, because they have social cohesion or Asabiyyah, are able to seek "expansion to the limit."[4]

The Soviet economist Nikolai Kondratiev theorized that capitalism advances in 50-year expansion/stagnation cycles, driven by technological innovation. The UK, Germany, the US, Japan and now China have been at the forefront of successive waves.

Crane Brinton in The Anatomy of Revolution saw the revolution as a driver of expansionism in, for example, Stalinist Russia, the United States and the Napoleonic Empire.

Christopher Booker believed that wishful thinking can generate a "dream phase" of expansionism such as in the European Union, which is short-lived and unreliable.

According to a 2023 study, important historical instances of territorial expansion have frequently happened because actors on the periphery of a state have acted without authorization from their superiors at the center of the state. Leaders subsequently find it difficult to withdraw from the newly captured areas due to "sunk costs, domestic political pressure, and national honor."[5]

Examples edit

 
Expansion of the Mongol Empire from 1206 to 1294

Every part of the world has experienced expansionism.[6][7] The religious imperialism and colonialism of Islam started with the early Muslim conquests, was followed by the religious Caliphate expansionisms, and ended with the Partition of the Ottoman Empire. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Ottoman Empire entered a period of expansion. The Ottomans ended the Eastern Roman Empire with the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed the Conqueror.[8]

The militarist and nationalistic reign of Russian Czar Nicholas I (1825–1855) led to wars of conquest against Persia (1826–1828) and Turkey (1828–1829). Various rebel tribes in the Caucasus region were crushed. A Polish revolt in 1830 was ruthlessly crushed. Russian troops in 1848 crossed into Austria-Hungary to put down the Hungarian Revolt. Russification policies were implemented to weaken minority ethnic groups. Pan-Slavist solidarity led to further war with Turkey (the sick man of Europe) in 1853 provoked Britain and France into invading Crimea.[9]

In Italy, Benito Mussolini sought to create a New Roman Empire, based around the Mediterranean. Italy invaded Ethiopia as early as 1935, Albania in early 1938, and later Greece. Spazio vitale ("living space") was the territorial expansionist concept of Italian Fascism. It was analogous to Nazi Germany's concept of Lebensraum and the United States' concept of "Manifest Destiny". Fascist ideologist Giuseppe Bottai likened this historic mission to the deeds of the ancient Romans.[10]

After 1937, Nazi Germany under Hitler laid claim to Sudetenland, unification (Anschluss) with Austria in 1938 and the occupation of the whole of the Czech lands the following year. After war broke out, Hitler and Stalin divided Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union. In a Drang nach Osten aimed at achieving Lebensraum for the German people, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.[11]

 
Comparison of Africa in the years 1880 and 1913

Expansionist nationalism is an aggressive and radical form of nationalism that incorporates autonomous patriotic sentiments with a belief in expansionism. The term was coined during the late 19th century as European powers indulged in the Scramble for Africa, but it has been most associated with militarist governments during the 20th century including Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, the Japanese Empire, and the Balkans countries of Albania (Greater Albania), Bulgaria (Greater Bulgaria), Croatia (Greater Croatia), Hungary (Greater Hungary), Romania (Greater Romania) and Serbia (Greater Serbia).

In American politics after the War of 1812, Manifest Destiny was the ideological movement during America's expansion West. The movement incorporated expansionist nationalism with continentalism, with the Mexican War in 1846–1848 being attributed to it. Despite championing American settlers and traders as the people whom the government's military would be aiding, the Bent, St. Vrain and Company stated to be the most influential Indian trading company prior to the Mexican War, underwent a decline because of the and of traffic from American settlers by Beyreis. The company also lost the partner Charles Bent on January 19, 1847, to a riot caused by the Mexican War. Many in the Cheyennes, Comanches, Kiowas, and Pawnees tribes died from smallpox in 1839–1840, measles and whooping cough in 1845, and cholera in 1849, which had been brought by American settlers. The buffalo herds, sparse grasses, and rare waters were also depleted following the war as increased traffic by settlers moving to California during the Gold Rush.[12]

21st century edit

China edit

The People's Republic of China is accused of expansionism through its operations and claims in the South China Sea, which are concurrently claimed in part by Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and the Republic of China.[13]

Israel edit

 
Israel and Israeli-occupied territories

Israel was established on May 14, 1948 on Palestinian land following the end of World War II and the Holocaust. Its government has occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai Peninsula since the Six-Day War, although the Sinai was later returned to Egypt in 1982[14][15][16] and Israel disengaged from the Gaza Strip in 2005. Israel also occupied southern Lebanon from February 1985 to May 2000.[17]

Iran edit

Iran, the largest Shi'ite state, has extended its influence across the entire Middle East, including Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan by arming local militias.[18]

Russia edit

 
Regions of Ukraine annexed by Russia in 2014 and 2022, with a red line marking the area of actual control by Russia on 30 September 2022

Russia under Vladimir Putin has had an aggressive posture since 2008, especially since 2014.[19] Events associated with Russia are the 2008 Russo-Georgian War and Russia's occupation of South Ossetia and Abkhazia; the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014 with the Annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas and escalated into the ongoing full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022; and the military intervention in Syria.

Turkey edit

Turkey's foreign policy is characterized, especially since 2010s by an aggressive expansionism, irredentism and interventionism in the Eastern Mediterranean and the neighboring Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Syria, as well as in Africa, including Libya, and Nagorno-Karabakh.[a] Turkey has occupied foreign territories and stationed troops in them, following the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the Turkish occupation of northern Syria since 2016 and the Turkish presence in northern Iraq since 2018.[26]

United States edit

The US retains military bases in some of the sovereign countries that it once occupied on a notionally-voluntary basis, including in Germany, Italy, Japan, Greenland, Iceland, Iraq, and formerly in Afghanistan. Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is retained despite the protests of the Cuban government, and the US has military bases in various other countries with which it has allied.

Ideologies edit

In the 19th century, theories of racial unity evolved such as Pan-Germanism, Pan-Slavism, and Pan-Turkism and the related Turanism. In each case, the dominant nation (respectively, Prussia; the Russian Empire;[27] and the Ottoman Empire, especially under Enver Pasha) used those theories to legitimise their expansionist policies.

American ideology edit

 
Historical territorial expansion of the United States

In terms of Ideological reasons for American expansion, this goes back to the 19th century when Frederick Turner produced his Frontier Thesis which made the case for American expansionism on the North American continent and that this turning point marked the beginning of a new epoch.[28] The case for expansionism was made under the umbrella of advances in the American economy and democracy. Furthermore, this was aided at the latter end of the 19th century by the belief of Anglo Saxon and subsequent American superiority. This was exacerbated by a recession for the first time in 20 years and the Americans believed that they could unload their goods on to people because they had a God given right to do so.[29] Their economic intentions were also supplemented by the fact that the Anglo Saxon race believed that they were simply better at governing a nation.[30] Furthermore, there was also a belief that white people were simply superior.[30] This racial superiority complex meant that some believed they had a right to enact their beliefs upon people who did not agree, such as Cuba, Guam and the Philippines.

Pan Americanism was a driver of governmental actors in the period, as the Harrison administration attempted to push through Pan American and tariff policies through the house and senate, however, their efforts were to no avail,[29] but this showed that Pan Americanism was a driver in the efforts of the government for American expansion.

Further expansion came off the American continent, in the Philippines, at the turn of the century which was arguably driven by a paternalistic United States as McKinley’s objectives, he declared in mid-1899, were fourfold: “Peace first, then a government of law and order honestly administered, full security to life, property, and occupation under the Stars and Stripes.”[31] However, the Philippines government was dictated by the Americans and ordinary Filipino people were not afforded the same privileges as the Americans that had been sent there.

It has also been posited that American leaders were pressured under traditional gender roles, which in turn made expansionism more likely. By the end of the 19th century President McKinley had been accustomed to being evaluated in terms of his manliness.[32] This also played in to the fact that in the late nineteenth century, men saw supporting the military as the ultimate test of being a man.[32] As a result, expansionism was a way of projecting manliness onto the electorate and in to society.

In popular culture edit

George Orwell's satirical novel Animal Farm is a fictional depiction, based on Stalin's Soviet Union, of a new elite seizing power, establishing new rules and hierarchies, and expanding economically while they compromise their ideals.

Robert Erskine Childers's novel The Riddle of the Sands portrays the threatening nature of the German Empire.

Elspeth Huxley's novel Red Strangers shows the effects on local culture of colonial expansion into Sub-Saharan Africa.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ An alternative definition sees "expansionism" as "a desire to annex additional territory" for reasons such as perceived needs for Lebensraum or resources, the intimidation of rivals, or the projection of an ideology.May, Ronald James, ed. (1979). The Indonesia-Papua New Guinea Border: Irianese Nationalism and Small State Diplomacy. Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. p. 43. ISBN 9780908160334. Retrieved 6 November 2020. At this point, however, we must define 'expansionism' a little more precisely. I am interpreting it to mean a desire to annex additional territory either
    1. for the sake of more lebensraum (living space) or resources (oil, copper, timber, etc.);
    2. for the sake of demonstrating the national power so as to intimidate neighbours;
    3. because of an ideology of national greatness, power
    [...]
  2. ^ Knorr, Klaus (1952). Schumpeter, Joseph A.; Arendt, Hannah (eds.). "Theories of Imperialism". World Politics. 4 (3): 402–431. doi:10.2307/2009130. ISSN 0043-8871. JSTOR 2009130. S2CID 145320143.
  3. ^ "Manifest Destiny | History, Examples, & Significance". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  4. ^ The Muqadimmah, 1377, pages 137-256
  5. ^ Anderson, Nicholas (2023). "Push and Pull on the Periphery: Inadvertent Expansion in World Politics". International Security. 47 (3): 136–173. doi:10.1162/isec_a_00454. S2CID 256390941.
  6. ^ See Abernethy (2009); Darwin (2008)
  7. ^ Wade, (2014).
  8. ^ Quataert, Donald (2005). The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922 (2 ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-521-83910-5.
  9. ^ Orlando Figes, Crimea (Penguin, 2011), chapter one
  10. ^ Rodogno, Davide (2006). Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation During the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 46–47. ISBN 978-0-521-84515-1.
  11. ^ Sebastian Haffner, The Meaning of Hitler, Phoenix, 2000, chapters 2, 3 and 4
  12. ^ Beyreis, David (Summer 2018). "The Chaos of Conquest: The Bents and the Problem of American Expansion". Kansas History. 41 (2): 72–89 – via History Reference Center.
  13. ^ Simon Tisdall, 'Vietnam's fury at China's expansionism can be traced to a troubled history', The Guardian, 15/5/2004
  14. ^ "Carter Says Error Led U.S. to Vote Against Israelis". Washington Post. 4 March 1980. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  15. ^ Masalha, Nur (2000). Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: politics of expansion. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press.
  16. ^ "Golan Heights Law". Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 14 December 1981. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  17. ^ Norton, Augustus.R (2000). "Hizballah and the Israeli Withdrawal from Southern Lebanon". Journal of Palestine Studies. 30 (1): 22–35. doi:10.2307/2676479. JSTOR 2676479.
  18. ^ Arango, Tim (15 July 2017). "Iran Dominates in Iraq After U.S. 'Handed the Country Over'". New York Times. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
  19. ^ Walker, Peter (2015-02-20). "Russian expansionism may pose existential threat, says NATO general". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
  20. ^ Antonopoulos, Paul (2017-10-20). "Turkey's interests in the Syrian war: from neo-Ottomanism to counterinsurgency". Global Affairs. 3 (4–5): 405–419. doi:10.1080/23340460.2018.1455061. ISSN 2334-0460. S2CID 158613563.
  21. ^ Danforth, Nick (23 October 2016). "Turkey's New Maps Are Reclaiming the Ottoman Empire". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
  22. ^ "Turkey's Dangerous New Exports: Pan-Islamist, Neo-Ottoman Visions and Regional Instability". Middle East Institute. 21 April 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  23. ^ Sinem Cengiz (7 May 2021). "Turkey's militarized foreign policy provokes Iraq". Arab News. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  24. ^ Asya Akca (8 April 2019). "Neo-Ottomanism: Turkey's foreign policy approach to Africa". Center for Strategic and International Studies. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  25. ^ Slaviša Milačić (23 October 2020). "The revival of neo-Ottomanism in Turkey". World Geostrategic Sights. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  26. ^ Yousif Ismael (18 May 2020). "Turkey's Growing Military Presence in the Kurdish Region of Iraq". Washington Institute. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  27. ^ Orlando Figes, Crimea, Penguin, 2011, p.89
  28. ^ LaFeber, Walter (1963). The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion 1860 - 1898. United States of America: Cornell University Press. p. 95. ISBN 0-8014-9048-0.
  29. ^ a b LaFeber, Walter (1963). The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion 1860 - 1898. United States of America: Cornell University Press. p. 112. ISBN 0-8014-9048-0.
  30. ^ a b Burnett, Christina; Marshall, Burke (2001). Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution. Durham: Duke University Press. p. 26. ISBN 1-283-06210-0.
  31. ^ LaFeber, Walter (2013-04-08). The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations (1 ed.). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139015677. ISBN 978-1-139-01567-7.
  32. ^ a b Hoganson, Kristin (1998). Fighting for American Manhood. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-300-08554-9.

Further reading edit

  • Abernethy, David B. The dynamics of global dominance: European overseas empires, 1415-1980 (Yale University Press, 2000).
  • Darwin, John. After Tamerlane: the global history of empire since 1405 ( Bloomsbury, 2008).
  • Edwards, Zophia, and Julian Go. "The Forces of Imperialism: Internalist and Global Explanations of the Anglo-European Empires, 1750–1960." Sociological Quarterly 60.4 (2019): 628–653.
  • MacKenzie, John M. "Empires in world history: characteristics, concepts, and consequences." in The Encyclopedia of Empire (2016): 1-25.
  • Wade, Geoff, ed. Asian Expansions: The Historical Experiences of Polity Expansion in Asia (Routledge, 2014).
  • Wesseling, Hendrik. The European Colonial Empires: 1815-1919 (Routledge, 2015).

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Expansionism refers to states obtaining greater territory through military empire building or colonialism 1 2 The full extent of the empire of Alexander the Great assembled in the 4th century BCE as he strove to conquer the lands of Asia and the MediterraneanIn the classical age of conquest moral justification for territorial expansion at the direct expense of another established polity who often faced displacement subjugation slavery rape and execution was often as unapologetic as because we can treading on the philosophical grounds of might makes right As political conceptions of the nation state evolved especially in reference to the inherent rights of the governed more complex justifications arose State collapse anarchy reunification or pan nationalism are sometimes used to justify and legitimize expansionism when the explicit goal is to reconquer territories that have been lost or to take over ancestral lands Lacking a viable historical claim of this nature would be expansionists may instead promote ideologies of promised lands such as manifest destiny or a religious destiny in the form of a Promised Land perhaps tinged with a self interested pragmatism that targeted lands will eventually belong to the potential invader anyway 3 Contents 1 Theories 2 Examples 3 21st century 3 1 China 3 2 Israel 3 3 Iran 3 4 Russia 3 5 Turkey 3 6 United States 4 Ideologies 4 1 American ideology 5 In popular culture 6 See also 7 References 8 Further readingTheories editIbn Khaldun wrote that newly established dynasties because they have social cohesion or Asabiyyah are able to seek expansion to the limit 4 The Soviet economist Nikolai Kondratiev theorized that capitalism advances in 50 year expansion stagnation cycles driven by technological innovation The UK Germany the US Japan and now China have been at the forefront of successive waves Crane Brinton in The Anatomy of Revolution saw the revolution as a driver of expansionism in for example Stalinist Russia the United States and the Napoleonic Empire Christopher Booker believed that wishful thinking can generate a dream phase of expansionism such as in the European Union which is short lived and unreliable According to a 2023 study important historical instances of territorial expansion have frequently happened because actors on the periphery of a state have acted without authorization from their superiors at the center of the state Leaders subsequently find it difficult to withdraw from the newly captured areas due to sunk costs domestic political pressure and national honor 5 Examples edit nbsp Expansion of the Mongol Empire from 1206 to 1294Every part of the world has experienced expansionism 6 7 The religious imperialism and colonialism of Islam started with the early Muslim conquests was followed by the religious Caliphate expansionisms and ended with the Partition of the Ottoman Empire In the 15th and 16th centuries the Ottoman Empire entered a period of expansion The Ottomans ended the Eastern Roman Empire with the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed the Conqueror 8 The militarist and nationalistic reign of Russian Czar Nicholas I 1825 1855 led to wars of conquest against Persia 1826 1828 and Turkey 1828 1829 Various rebel tribes in the Caucasus region were crushed A Polish revolt in 1830 was ruthlessly crushed Russian troops in 1848 crossed into Austria Hungary to put down the Hungarian Revolt Russification policies were implemented to weaken minority ethnic groups Pan Slavist solidarity led to further war with Turkey the sick man of Europe in 1853 provoked Britain and France into invading Crimea 9 In Italy Benito Mussolini sought to create a New Roman Empire based around the Mediterranean Italy invaded Ethiopia as early as 1935 Albania in early 1938 and later Greece Spazio vitale living space was the territorial expansionist concept of Italian Fascism It was analogous to Nazi Germany s concept of Lebensraum and the United States concept of Manifest Destiny Fascist ideologist Giuseppe Bottai likened this historic mission to the deeds of the ancient Romans 10 After 1937 Nazi Germany under Hitler laid claim to Sudetenland unification Anschluss with Austria in 1938 and the occupation of the whole of the Czech lands the following year After war broke out Hitler and Stalin divided Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union In a Drang nach Osten aimed at achieving Lebensraum for the German people Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 11 nbsp Comparison of Africa in the years 1880 and 1913Expansionist nationalism is an aggressive and radical form of nationalism that incorporates autonomous patriotic sentiments with a belief in expansionism The term was coined during the late 19th century as European powers indulged in the Scramble for Africa but it has been most associated with militarist governments during the 20th century including Fascist Italy Nazi Germany the Japanese Empire and the Balkans countries of Albania Greater Albania Bulgaria Greater Bulgaria Croatia Greater Croatia Hungary Greater Hungary Romania Greater Romania and Serbia Greater Serbia In American politics after the War of 1812 Manifest Destiny was the ideological movement during America s expansion West The movement incorporated expansionist nationalism with continentalism with the Mexican War in 1846 1848 being attributed to it Despite championing American settlers and traders as the people whom the government s military would be aiding the Bent St Vrain and Company stated to be the most influential Indian trading company prior to the Mexican War underwent a decline because of the and of traffic from American settlers by Beyreis The company also lost the partner Charles Bent on January 19 1847 to a riot caused by the Mexican War Many in the Cheyennes Comanches Kiowas and Pawnees tribes died from smallpox in 1839 1840 measles and whooping cough in 1845 and cholera in 1849 which had been brought by American settlers The buffalo herds sparse grasses and rare waters were also depleted following the war as increased traffic by settlers moving to California during the Gold Rush 12 21st century editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed March 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message China edit Further information Chinese expansionism The People s Republic of China is accused of expansionism through its operations and claims in the South China Sea which are concurrently claimed in part by Vietnam the Philippines Brunei Malaysia and the Republic of China 13 Israel edit nbsp Israel and Israeli occupied territoriesIsrael was established on May 14 1948 on Palestinian land following the end of World War II and the Holocaust Its government has occupied the West Bank the Gaza Strip the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula since the Six Day War although the Sinai was later returned to Egypt in 1982 14 15 16 and Israel disengaged from the Gaza Strip in 2005 Israel also occupied southern Lebanon from February 1985 to May 2000 17 Iran edit Iran the largest Shi ite state has extended its influence across the entire Middle East including Iraq Lebanon Syria Yemen and Afghanistan by arming local militias 18 Russia edit nbsp Regions of Ukraine annexed by Russia in 2014 and 2022 with a red line marking the area of actual control by Russia on 30 September 2022Russia under Vladimir Putin has had an aggressive posture since 2008 especially since 2014 19 Events associated with Russia are the 2008 Russo Georgian War and Russia s occupation of South Ossetia and Abkhazia the Russo Ukrainian War which began in 2014 with the Annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas and escalated into the ongoing full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the military intervention in Syria Turkey edit Further information Neo Ottomanism Turkey s foreign policy is characterized especially since 2010s by an aggressive expansionism irredentism and interventionism in the Eastern Mediterranean and the neighboring Cyprus Greece Iraq Syria as well as in Africa including Libya and Nagorno Karabakh a Turkey has occupied foreign territories and stationed troops in them following the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus the Turkish occupation of northern Syria since 2016 and the Turkish presence in northern Iraq since 2018 26 United States edit The US retains military bases in some of the sovereign countries that it once occupied on a notionally voluntary basis including in Germany Italy Japan Greenland Iceland Iraq and formerly in Afghanistan Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is retained despite the protests of the Cuban government and the US has military bases in various other countries with which it has allied Ideologies editIn the 19th century theories of racial unity evolved such as Pan Germanism Pan Slavism and Pan Turkism and the related Turanism In each case the dominant nation respectively Prussia the Russian Empire 27 and the Ottoman Empire especially under Enver Pasha used those theories to legitimise their expansionist policies American ideology edit See also Manifest destiny and American frontier nbsp Historical territorial expansion of the United StatesIn terms of Ideological reasons for American expansion this goes back to the 19th century when Frederick Turner produced his Frontier Thesis which made the case for American expansionism on the North American continent and that this turning point marked the beginning of a new epoch 28 The case for expansionism was made under the umbrella of advances in the American economy and democracy Furthermore this was aided at the latter end of the 19th century by the belief of Anglo Saxon and subsequent American superiority This was exacerbated by a recession for the first time in 20 years and the Americans believed that they could unload their goods on to people because they had a God given right to do so 29 Their economic intentions were also supplemented by the fact that the Anglo Saxon race believed that they were simply better at governing a nation 30 Furthermore there was also a belief that white people were simply superior 30 This racial superiority complex meant that some believed they had a right to enact their beliefs upon people who did not agree such as Cuba Guam and the Philippines Pan Americanism was a driver of governmental actors in the period as the Harrison administration attempted to push through Pan American and tariff policies through the house and senate however their efforts were to no avail 29 but this showed that Pan Americanism was a driver in the efforts of the government for American expansion Further expansion came off the American continent in the Philippines at the turn of the century which was arguably driven by a paternalistic United States as McKinley s objectives he declared in mid 1899 were fourfold Peace first then a government of law and order honestly administered full security to life property and occupation under the Stars and Stripes 31 However the Philippines government was dictated by the Americans and ordinary Filipino people were not afforded the same privileges as the Americans that had been sent there It has also been posited that American leaders were pressured under traditional gender roles which in turn made expansionism more likely By the end of the 19th century President McKinley had been accustomed to being evaluated in terms of his manliness 32 This also played in to the fact that in the late nineteenth century men saw supporting the military as the ultimate test of being a man 32 As a result expansionism was a way of projecting manliness onto the electorate and in to society In popular culture editGeorge Orwell s satirical novel Animal Farm is a fictional depiction based on Stalin s Soviet Union of a new elite seizing power establishing new rules and hierarchies and expanding economically while they compromise their ideals Robert Erskine Childers s novel The Riddle of the Sands portrays the threatening nature of the German Empire Elspeth Huxley s novel Red Strangers shows the effects on local culture of colonial expansion into Sub Saharan Africa See also editAmerican imperialism British Empire French colonial empire Colonialism Early Muslim conquests Ethnic cleansing European colonization of the Americas Expansionist nationalism Greater Israel Irredentism List of irredentist claims or disputes Manifest Destiny Scramble for Africa late 19th century Spread of IslamReferences edit See 20 21 22 23 24 25 An alternative definition sees expansionism as a desire to annex additional territory for reasons such as perceived needs for Lebensraum or resources the intimidation of rivals or the projection of an ideology May Ronald James ed 1979 The Indonesia Papua New Guinea Border Irianese Nationalism and Small State Diplomacy Department of Political and Social Change Research School of Pacific Studies Australian National University p 43 ISBN 9780908160334 Retrieved 6 November 2020 At this point however we must define expansionism a little more precisely I am interpreting it to mean a desire to annex additional territory eitherfor the sake of more lebensraum living space or resources oil copper timber etc for the sake of demonstrating the national power so as to intimidate neighbours because of an ideology of national greatness power Knorr Klaus 1952 Schumpeter Joseph A Arendt Hannah eds Theories of Imperialism World Politics 4 3 402 431 doi 10 2307 2009130 ISSN 0043 8871 JSTOR 2009130 S2CID 145320143 Manifest Destiny History Examples amp Significance Encyclopedia Britannica Retrieved 2019 05 07 The Muqadimmah 1377 pages 137 256 Anderson Nicholas 2023 Push and Pull on the Periphery Inadvertent Expansion in World Politics International Security 47 3 136 173 doi 10 1162 isec a 00454 S2CID 256390941 See Abernethy 2009 Darwin 2008 Wade 2014 Quataert Donald 2005 The Ottoman Empire 1700 1922 2 ed Cambridge University Press p 4 ISBN 978 0 521 83910 5 Orlando Figes Crimea Penguin 2011 chapter one Rodogno Davide 2006 Fascism s European Empire Italian Occupation During the Second World War Cambridge UK Cambridge University Press pp 46 47 ISBN 978 0 521 84515 1 Sebastian Haffner The Meaning of Hitler Phoenix 2000 chapters 2 3 and 4 Beyreis David Summer 2018 The Chaos of Conquest The Bents and the Problem of American Expansion Kansas History 41 2 72 89 via History Reference Center Simon Tisdall Vietnam s fury at China s expansionism can be traced to a troubled history The Guardian 15 5 2004 Carter Says Error Led U S to Vote Against Israelis Washington Post 4 March 1980 Retrieved 16 November 2021 Masalha Nur 2000 Imperial Israel and the Palestinians politics of expansion Sterling VA Pluto Press Golan Heights Law Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs 14 December 1981 Retrieved 16 November 2021 Norton Augustus R 2000 Hizballah and the Israeli Withdrawal from Southern Lebanon Journal of Palestine Studies 30 1 22 35 doi 10 2307 2676479 JSTOR 2676479 Arango Tim 15 July 2017 Iran Dominates in Iraq After U S Handed the Country Over New York Times Retrieved 8 November 2019 Walker Peter 2015 02 20 Russian expansionism may pose existential threat says NATO general The Guardian Retrieved 2018 10 04 Antonopoulos Paul 2017 10 20 Turkey s interests in the Syrian war from neo Ottomanism to counterinsurgency Global Affairs 3 4 5 405 419 doi 10 1080 23340460 2018 1455061 ISSN 2334 0460 S2CID 158613563 Danforth Nick 23 October 2016 Turkey s New Maps Are Reclaiming the Ottoman Empire Foreign Policy Retrieved 2020 10 08 Turkey s Dangerous New Exports Pan Islamist Neo Ottoman Visions and Regional Instability Middle East Institute 21 April 2020 Retrieved 4 May 2021 Sinem Cengiz 7 May 2021 Turkey s militarized foreign policy provokes Iraq Arab News Retrieved 9 May 2021 Asya Akca 8 April 2019 Neo Ottomanism Turkey s foreign policy approach to Africa Center for Strategic and International Studies Retrieved 13 May 2021 Slavisa Milacic 23 October 2020 The revival of neo Ottomanism in Turkey World Geostrategic Sights Retrieved 13 May 2021 Yousif Ismael 18 May 2020 Turkey s Growing Military Presence in the Kurdish Region of Iraq Washington Institute Retrieved 1 October 2022 Orlando Figes Crimea Penguin 2011 p 89 LaFeber Walter 1963 The New Empire An Interpretation of American Expansion 1860 1898 United States of America Cornell University Press p 95 ISBN 0 8014 9048 0 a b LaFeber Walter 1963 The New Empire An Interpretation of American Expansion 1860 1898 United States of America Cornell University Press p 112 ISBN 0 8014 9048 0 a b Burnett Christina Marshall Burke 2001 Foreign in a Domestic Sense Puerto Rico American Expansion and the Constitution Durham Duke University Press p 26 ISBN 1 283 06210 0 LaFeber Walter 2013 04 08 The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations 1 ed Cambridge University Press doi 10 1017 cbo9781139015677 ISBN 978 1 139 01567 7 a b Hoganson Kristin 1998 Fighting for American Manhood New Haven and London Yale University Press p 95 ISBN 978 0 300 08554 9 Further reading editAbernethy David B The dynamics of global dominance European overseas empires 1415 1980 Yale University Press 2000 Darwin John After Tamerlane the global history of empire since 1405 Bloomsbury 2008 Edwards Zophia and Julian Go The Forces of Imperialism Internalist and Global Explanations of the Anglo European Empires 1750 1960 Sociological Quarterly 60 4 2019 628 653 MacKenzie John M Empires in world history characteristics concepts and consequences in The Encyclopedia of Empire 2016 1 25 Wade Geoff ed Asian Expansions The Historical Experiences of Polity Expansion in Asia Routledge 2014 Wesseling Hendrik The European Colonial Empires 1815 1919 Routledge 2015 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Expansionism amp oldid 1204961485, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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