The most general reform movement (desarrollista) simply accepted the idea of achieving change through "modernization," in order to make the system more efficient.
Imperialism, from this perspective, is not primarily a form of political domination and economic exploitation but rather a paternalistic practice of government that exports "civilization" (e.g. modernization) in order to foster the improvement of native peoples.
In order to address the challenges of modernization and industrialization, China has begun to blend traditions of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism with Whitehead's "constructive post-modern" philosophy in order to create an "ecological civilization".
Confronted with the rapid and aggressive expansion of these nation-states newly empowered by industrialization, almost all non-Western civilizations, including China, attempted to import the political, social and economic values of modernism to recreate their own cultures in order to achieve modernization.
But he agreed then to a modernization of the nuclear forces in order to get the New START Treaty approved.
Russia needs foreign capital in order to affect its modernization and is aware of the need to project a more positive investment image.
The Russian economy was the hardest hit of all members of the Group of 20, and this sobering event led to renewed efforts to integrate with the West in order to advance the modernization of Russia.
To that end, the concept of smart grid has been introduced at the last decades in order to accomplish the modernization of the power grid while incorporating various capabilities such as advanced metering, monitoring and self-healing to the systems.
In order to realize agricultural modernization and agricultural environment protection, this paper designs an agricultural environment monitoring system based on wireless sensor networks, and gives the hardware design of sensor nodes and the flowchart of software.
Next-generation digital government leadership is also being driven by companies like Barcelona-based Scytl, which is helping public sector organizations all over the world adopt election modernization, online voting and e-governance solutions in order to increase the transparency, security, accessibility and efficiency of elections and plebiscites.
King's comments came in response to a set of recommendations published last week by the Republican National Committee, which called for a modernization of the GOP's platform on immigration in order to stay competitive within America's evolving electorate.
