I use Peluso's analytic of coercive conservation (1993) to show how conservation practice furthers the expansionist policies of the state and elite investors while simultaneously dehumanizing the indigenous peoples that depend on natural resources for their livelihoods.
China and its neighbors, including Vietnam, Brunei, and the Philippines, have long vied for dominance over the strategic waterway, but Beijing has taken the most aggressive stance in furthering its expansionist ambitions, building artificial islands and constructing military installments.
It's always guesswork with the Guggenheim whether the driving agent behind these extravaganzas is prospective sponsorship by tourist boards or the desire to extend the brand of the museum further, enhancing its diplomatic narcissism and expansionist dreams in places like Abu Dhabi.
The risk of Brexit, Grexit, an expansionist Russia, the threat of further terrorist atrocities, combined with an uncertain economic outlook and an unresolved debt crisis, mean 2016 is a make or break year.
And the questions are charged with further suspicion as the idea of Islam being an expansionist religion is intoned.
While no single political event seemed to further the transmission of Chinese cultural elements to Korea and Japan, clearly the expansionist policies of the rulers of the Han dynasty (206 bce–220 ce) stimulated what had been a gradual assimilation of Chinese cultural elements by both Korea and Japan.
But the extremes of either option ― isolationist or expansionist ― will throw many Asian nations into a further scramble.
A further consequentialist argument claims that cultures and states that fight wars tend to become militaristic and expansionist.
Thereafter, his expansionist campaigns began.
America, he says, is expansionist.
