Concept

Expansionism

Overview

policies of governments and states that involve territorial or economic expansion

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Expansionism

• Jane Addams

Related ideas

• The Holocaust
• George Orwell
• Greece
• Human rights
• Iran
• Imperialism
• Byzantine Empire
• Libya
• Lebanon
• Empire of Japan
• Ethiopia
• Mediterranean Sea
• Benito Mussolini
• The Guardian
• Interventionism (politics)
• Ibn Khaldun
• Vietnam
• Eastern Mediterranean
• Russian Empire
• Nazi Germany
• Nation state
• Nationalism
• Ottoman Empire
• Philip K. Dick

Opposing perspectives

• Isolationism

Place in the tradition

Part of Political philosophy.

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