Argishti I in the Arax valley: consequences of the conquest by Krzysztof Jakubiak

“…The article outlines Argishti’s actions, including the evidence of violence discovered during recent excavation at Metsamor in Armenia, thus highlighting the dynamics and significance of Urartian expansionism. A contribution is also made to a study of the emergence and development of urban settlement in the Arax valley through an examination of surviving Urartian inscriptions.…”
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Salazar et la guerre civile espagnole by Gonçalves Cécile

“…However, the luso-british alliance, the leader of the Estado Novo knew indispensable to the preservation of the Portuguese colonial empire against the aggressive expansionism of the axis, did not go ahead hinder efforts the Estado Novo in Spain to promote the establishment of an authoritarian and nationalistic like hers and who no longer represent a threat to its survival. 20 000 Portuguese officially volunteers, the Viriatos, would fight alongside Franco against the Republic. …”
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América Latina frente al desafío de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación by Enrique Olivares Rodríguez

“…The current state in informatics, derived from technological change and the global capitalist expansionism, has affected dramatically the international markets as well as the technological paths that sustain industrial development. …”
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The Cypriot Trilogy of Isocrates:Diplomacy, Monarchy and Political Philosophy by Tomás Morales Caturla

“…They were written at the precise moment when Timotheus travelled through the Aegean Sea and the north of Greece in order to consolidate Athenian expansionism. In this way, he made a sequence of political speeches in which he used his own philosophical notions adapting them, on the one hand, to the Cypriot political situation characterized by confrontations between the pro-Hellenic and pro-Persian factions and, on the other hand, to the strategic needs of Athens…”
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The post-neoliberal South American development by Santiago Carranco Paredes

“…The aim of this paper was to transmit the idea that the failure of neoliberalism in the 90s together with the expansionism of China have shaped the contemporary political and economic arena among the countries of South America. …”
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“Wherefore She Made Suit”: African Women’s Religious and Spiritual Determinism in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England by Tamara Lewis

“…Despite living in a period that arguably witnessed the ideological birth and development of the racial construct in tandem with British colonialist and imperialist expansionism, these women defiantly crafted their own brand of spiritual determinism to wield personal agency in the face of racist theological discourse, ecclesiastical institutions, and legal authorities.…”
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Transnational companies and production global networks by Valentina Golea, Nicoleta Niculescu, Dragos Niculescu

“…This process is based on the imminent expansionism of the market forces, their tendencies to invade the environment “unmarketedly”, and to include it in an economic system based on the market mechanism. …”
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Mintea captivă în vremuri de urgie sau lupta pentru limpezirea minții by Anton CARPINSCHI

“…Confronted, however, with post-Soviet political-military expansionism in search of a new world order, we are once again exposed to a cognitive war of conquest and manipulation of minds and, implicitly, to the captive mind syndrome. …”
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Prisons and State Building: Promoting ‘The Fiasco of the Prison’ in a Global Context by Deborah H Drake

“…Prison expansionism around the world is, in part, facilitated by extolling the prison as a symbol of ‘Western-democracy’ which is justified as an effective and transparent means of enforcing the rule of law and as an internationally recognised indicator of a strong state. …”
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La regionalización de la seguridad de América del Norte by Roberto Domínguez Rivera

“…It seems clear to the author that this process is double-folded: first, borders have been maintained as the response towards external threats, namelyterrorism (USA) or expansionism (Canada, Mexico); second, the US government seems to be in need of a safety perimeter, objective that has led to several bi- and tri-lateral agreements. …”
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La profesionalización de los ejércitos consulares: Antecedentes, planteamiento y consecuencias de las reformas de Cayo Mario sobre la realidad político-militar del periodo tardorre... by José Manuel López Manzanera

“…During the second century BC the Roman army experienced a deep internal crisis, which has been seen as a natural consequence of the newly established republican expansionism. The launching of military campaigns in ever more distant theatres and for longer periods of time had negative effects on the basis of recruitment, exponentially reducing the availability of human resources that met the basic requirements for participation in the levies. …”
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Commodification of intangibles in post-IP capitalism: rethinking the counter-hegemonic discourse by Maurizio Borghi

“…Within this traditional framework, opponents of neo-liberal market expansionism have championed the role of IP doctrines and principles such as fair use, exceptions and limitations. …”
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Piracy, Property and the Crisis of Democracy by Martin Fredriksson, James Arvanitakis

“…Pirate parties see themselves as a digital civil rights movement, defending the public domain and the citizen’s right to privacy against copyright expansionism and increased surveillance. Since the first pirate party was formed in Sweden in 2006, similar parties have emerged across the world. …”
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Hugo Valentin's scholarly campaign against antisemitism by Olof Bortz

“…Instead, he presented antisemitism and individual antisemites as problems in their own right, which, given Nazi German expansionism and the outbreak of the Second World War, seemed to be a greater and more urgent issue than whatever questions might have pertained to Jews and their place in modern society. …”
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Private Theatricals and Feminist Abolitionism: "Jo's" and "Meg's" Sensation Plays by Daniela Daniele

“…In particular, Alcott reenacts the colonial myth of Pocahontas and of the redemptive role played by a Moorish beauty as an allegory of the interracial intercourse involved in the process of American expansionism in the Spanish-speaking colonies, in a conflict which paved the way to Civil War toward the consolidation of North America as a mainly Anglophone country.…”
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Sustainable economy: Concept of post-global development by Ushakov Denis, Dudukalov Egor, Shatila Khodor

“…The paper: - scientifically substantiates that the global economy, which at the current stage of its development demonstrates aggressive expansionism, the elimination of the economic basis of progress, shows signs of an upcoming phase transition that is able to reformat the world economic system; gives a definition of a sustainable economy, the long-term growth of which is ensured by the conditions for maintaining its competitiveness, which are minimally dependent and determined by the dynamics of the conjuncture of foreign markets; proposes a methodology for assessing the economic stability of modern states economic based on the aggregation of economic sustainability predictors and stabilizers (in the spheres of traditional, human and natural capital); defines the concept of modernizing the principles of state economic regulation;…”
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Criminal law response to terrorism in the legislation of Spain and Italy by Bodrožić Ivana P.

“…At the end of the paper, the author concludes that the criminal law provisions on terrorism of the selected legislation are aligned with the aquis communitaire, as well as characterized by expansionism and punitiveism, which in a free, democratic state must be limited and constantly reconsidered.…”
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Czynnik tajwańsko-chiński w strategii i polityce Francji wobec Indo-Pacyfiku by Tomasz Młynarski

“…The second aspect of the analysis of France’s policy and strategy towards the Indo-Pacific region was embedded in the broader framework of political, economic relations and military alliances with Asian countries as an element of promoting a multipolar order and stopping Chinese expansionism in the Indo-Pacific area and strengthening its own geopolitical position against the background of China’s rivalry with United States. …”
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La théorie de l’argumentation comme épistémologie sociale naturalisée by Alban Bouvier

“…Furthermore, sociologically speaking, although it does not introduce new sui generis entities such as epistemic communities or institutions (Alvin Goldman’s criterion of sociological expansionism), pragma-dialectics is already “expansionist”. …”
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Dal Lebensraum allo spazio vitale – la ricezione politica del pensiero di Ratzel in Italia, 1900–1943 by N. Bassoni

“…Moreover, it traces how the second interpretation emerged at the very beginning of the century – long before Rudolf Kjellén and Karl Haushofer – and gained momentum in the 1930s, as Italian intellectuals used the concept of living space to promote expansionism and the trilateral rapprochement with Germany and Japan.…”
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