The white tsar and his “unfaithful” subjects: intercultural diplomacies on Russia's asian frontier by Michael Khodarkovsky

“…A state driven by “messianic expansionism” according to the Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov? …”
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Roots of Russian Soft Power: Rethinking Russian National Identity by Michael O. Slobodchikoff, G. Douglas Davis

“…Thus, Russia turned inward to nineteenth century works in philosophy and literature while Western soft power and expansionism continued to draw closer to Russia’s borders. …”
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Memory and Forgetting on the National Periphery: Marseilles and the Regicide of 1934 by Matthew Graves

“…It advanced the career of future Vichy Prime Minister Pierre Laval, who replaced Barthou as Foreign Minister, while French efforts to contain the threat of German expansionism by forging alliances with the Central European powers died with Barthou; King Alexander Ist's successor moved Yugoslavia into the camp of the Axis powers. …”
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Ecological wisdom: Reclaiming the cultural landscape of the Okanagan Valley by Alyssa Schwann

“…Respect for Indigenous expert knowledge–Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wisdom (TEKW) – and maintaining their values in the land, is a land use topic often excluded from settler expansionism development practices and policies. This prospectus paper calls for a shared vision, developed in partnership with local expertise, to ensure a productive and experientially rich cultural landscape that protects the long-term viability of the region. …”
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Ecological bases of philopatry and cooperation in Ethiopian wolves by Marino, J, Sillero-Zubiri, C, Johnson, P, Macdonald, D

“…The fitness benefits of philopatry became evident after a rabies epizootic, when philopatry and expansionism prevailed in under-saturated conditions, until large groups split or provided dispersers that established locally. …”

Conflict of cultures: a marginalised orphan of the colonial discourse ‘disinterred’ in Jack Maggs by Peter Carey by Rafał Łyczkowski

“…The moral corruption of the Victorian society seems particularly reflected in the character of Mary Britten—a ruthless abortionist being an allusion to Victorian Mother Britain in its unstoppable colonial expansionism. In this paper I will show that Jack seems to epitomise the colonised and marginalised Australia that avenges itself. …”
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On the Ends of the Network as a Zone of Friction (And Extraction) by Sudipto Basu

“…Drawing on the Marxian notion of general intellect, I posit how habits are key to generating network surplus value, and to cybernetic expansionism. Habits shape, prepare the outside for its subsumption into the network. …”
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Forgotten pioneers in degrowth: John Africa and the MOVE Organization by Anthony T. Fiscella

“…Decades before the term 'degrowth' had gained currency as a rallying cry against the ideology of economic expansionism, John Africa founded The MOVE Organization in Philadelphia based on sanctity of life and dismantling institutions of state and capital (including economic growth). …”
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Brazilian’s Supreme Court in a Democratic Coup d’état by Maurício Sullivan Balhe Guedes, Luisa de Boucherville Ferreira Lombardi

“…Background and Originality: It is correct to say that Bolsonaro was not able to conceive his re-election bid as he would have liked, much of it due to the decision-making expansionism of the STF. The method employed does not necessarily see such a situation as negative, even if it is atypical, as long as it enhances democracy. …”
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EXTERNAL AND SAFE POLICY OF SAUDI ARABIA IN CONDITIONS OF THE ACTUAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE NEIGHBORING SPACE by M. Zamikula

“…The formation of the post-American Middle East space is accompanied by the escalation of several threats, primarily the activation of Iranian expansionism. It becomes the main challenge to Saudi Arabia's regional ambitions, which claims leadership in the Muslim world. …”
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Disinformation and Russia-Ukrainian War on Canadian Social Media by Jean-Christophe Boucher

“…First, pro-Russian discourse on Canadian Twitter blames NATO for the conflict suggesting that Russia’s invasion was a result of NATO’s expansionism or aggressive intentions toward Russia. …”
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Political cartoon as a genre of political discourse by Natalia M Dugalich

“…Political discourse has such characteristics as anthropocentrism, multidisciplinarity, expansionism, functionalism and explanatoriness. The genres of political discourse can be characterized as a homogeneous and creolized text; political cartoon is a creolized text that unites iconic and verbal levels and has paralinguistic characteristics. …”
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The Art of the Portrait in the Religious Painting of Wallachia and Moldavia in the 15th – 17th centuries by Valentin Sava

“…Beyond the diversity of the forms of socio-economic and cultural-artistic development, at the end of the 14th century, Wallachia, Moldavia and the knights of Romanian origins of Transylvania, Banat and Maramureş were gathered in one single system, with feudality institutions of Occidental inspiration, but with mostly Orthodox spirituality, a system that is permanently struggling to find the perfect equilibrium between the Islamic-Ottoman expansionism and the insistent conversion actions of Western Catholicism. …”
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Memory and Forgetting on the National Periphery: Marseilles and the Regicide of 1934 by Matthew Graves

“…It advanced the career of future Vichy Prime Minister Pierre Laval, who replaced Barthou as Foreign Minister, while French efforts to contain the threat of German expansionism by forging alliances with the Central European powers died with Barthou; King Alexander Ist's successor moved Yugoslavia into the camp of the Axis powers. …”
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The position of Ahmad Khan Donboli Khoie in Ottoman Government’s policy of Pan-Islamism in the Caucasus by Mohammad Aziznejad, Fatemeh Jafarnia

“…Pan-Islamism was the Ottoman Empire’s plan to limit and contain Russia’s expansionism. Their purpose was to bring the local Khans under one banner in the name of Islamic Unity to resist against Russia’s colonial policies. …”
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Transformation of the Socio-Economic Space of the Russian Arctic in the Context of Geopolitics, Macroeconomics, and Internal Factors of Development by Tatiana P. SKUFINA, Marina N. MITROSHINA

“…The specificity and the strong influence of geopolitics on socio-economic transformations in the Russian Arctic are identified, but at the same time, the significance of the manifestation of expansionism as an internal human need for settlement, fame, and wealth is emphasized, which also ensures the development of the Arctic. …”
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Boundary Standoff and China-India Relations: A Chinese Scholar’s Perspective by Zongyi Liu

“…In the future, China-Indian border conflict is likely to become commonplace due to India’s expansionism.…”
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Iran and the Caucasian crisis: The war between Russia and Georgia (August 2008) by Darvishi, Farhad

“…Such changes and Russia’s show of power revealed that Moscow intends to prevent by any means the expansionism of the West within NATO’s or other similar organizations’ framework in the realm of its geo-political boundary. …”
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THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AGGRESSION AGAINST UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIAN GEOSTRATEGY IN THE POST-SOVIET SPACE by Kostiantyn Semchynskyi

“…At the same time, the author comes to the conclusion that the causes of the aggressive foreign policy of Russia in the post-bipolar period are laid down in the nature of Putinism as the quintessence of traditional Russian expansionism, imperial chauvinism, and criminal contempt for the norms of international law. …”
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WILL THE SOUTH-CHINESE SEA BECOME THE CHINESE MARE NOSTRUM? MILITARY STRATEGIC AND FOREIGN POLICY ASPECT OF THE TERRITORIAL CLAIMS OF CHINA IN THE SOUTH-CHINESE SEA by A. V. Gubin

“…Beijing is strongly interested in controlling this area for the purposes of national security as Washington intends to enhance its influence and containing Chinese expansionism. Both parties freely manipulate with the International law and simultaneuosly raise miltary activity within the South-Easat Asia that can cause a seruos conflict. …”
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