Then there's the slight issue of China's obvious expansionist ambitions.
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It was the expansionist paradigm all too familiar in modern capitalist
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It was never expansionist in the manner of western Europe and America.
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Entrepreneurs and established companies must nonetheless contend with an expansionist GBU Ritual.
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This does not necessarily make fishermen the tools of an expansionist policy.
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It is a democratic firewall against the expansionist policies of Putin's Kremlin.
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Russia and China, ideological foes, are in an assertive and expansionist mood.
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His Syrian campaign is part of an expansionist, neo-Ottoman foreign policy.
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The region's president "has a fairly consistent expansionist agenda", says a Western diplomat.
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They rejected the liberals' expansionist war aims, but agreed on continuing the fight.
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All this has left China, with its expansionist ambitions, floored at its luck.
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To cope with rising costs, the industry consolidated, which restrained over-expansionist tendencies.
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Iran is a repressive and expansionist regime with a hideous human rights record.
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I see an India that maintains regional balance against expansionist adversaries in the Pacific.
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They don't talk about foreign policy and expansionist imperialism the way Hitler did either.
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Jackson preferred James K. Polk, an avid expansionist, and like himself, a slave holder.
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What they really feared was expansionist Shia militia, well equipped and funded by Iran.
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In reality, though, they'll be serving as provocative "signals" to a supposedly expansionist Russia.
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Iran has pursued an aggressive and expansionist foreign policy in Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon.
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This would enable him to impose, among other things, a radically expansionist budget for 2020.
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The U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish militia refutes those claims and says Turkey has expansionist designs.
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The most vocal expansionist was Theodore Roosevelt, for whom hegemony was an end in itself.
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How do the candidates intend to support American allies who feel threatened by an expansionist Russia?
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After a long period of double-digit growth, many firms are still on an expansionist course.
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Tensions are rising in the South China Sea as China seeks to enforce its expansionist claims.
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General Mattis views with alarm Moscow's expansionist or bellicose policies in Syria, Ukraine and the Baltics.
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The U.S.-Turkey rift weakens NATO, drives Turkey to an expansionist foreign policy, and strengthens jihadists.
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With the Kremlin's expansionist political strategy, Russia has seemingly decided to position itself as a disruptor.
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Both Russia and China are expansionist powers that threaten American and Western interests around the globe.
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Russia denies it poses any threat to the Nordic countries and accuses the West of expansionist ambitions.
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He was unavailable for comment, but previously told Reuters he does not apologize for his expansionist desires.
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China and Russia no longer share a common expansionist ideology, but realpolitik considerations are driving them together.
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"Russian politicy is expansionist, not aggressive," Orban's minister Janos Lazar told a news conference, reacting to Trump's comment.
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To distract his people from their many woes, Putin has pursued a dangerously aggressive and expansionist foreign policy.
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But this worldview follows the time-honored expansionist ambitions of Russian autocracy under czars and Communist leaders alike.
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Méliès suffused his film with the expansionist spirit of Western Europe, playacting the carbon-based life-form's burden.
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Though the Chinese were once Mongol victims, modern-day China is often likened to the expansionist Mongol empire.
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In stark contrast, the NATO alliance under U.S. leadership exists to prevent an expansionist power from dominating Europe.
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But the notion that China is a major expansionist power — though not aggressive toward America at all — that Russia is potentially a major expansionist power in Eurasia, those are the two most important facts about the world right now, and they're not really on the minds of the American people.
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Reaching that target would depend on Japan sticking with "Abenomics", the expansionist policies of the prime minister, Shinzo Abe.
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Here in the Western Hemisphere, we are committed to maintaining our independence from the encroachment of expansionist foreign powers.
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Admiral Harris has taken a hard line against Beijing's "provocative and expansionist" base-building in the South China Sea.
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The government's expansionist ambitions are clearest here in what will be known as Xiongan (pronounced Sheong-an) New Area.
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The European Union is grappling with a stagnant economy, a wave of migration and the threat of an expansionist Russia.
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Don't supporters of a rightist, expansionist Israeli government use accusations of anti-Semitism to shut down criticism of its policies?
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It is going to deny the regime the revenue that it needs to run a violent and expansionist foreign policy.
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One of its sober conclusions: "An emboldened and expansionist Iran appears to be the only victor" of the Iraq War.
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The banks also did not engage in the kind of expansionist strategy that had gotten them in trouble in 1991.
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Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran's revolutionary nature and expansionist intent have remained constant and its military capabilities have only improved.
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The U.S. troops are best replaced by air and naval capabilities elsewhere in Asia that would help deter an expansionist China.
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This view is shared by European allies who fear Putin could become more expansionist if he feels Trump will not intervene.
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The Washington-based Atlantic Council has long had a reputation of being tough on Russia and its shadowy expansionist foreign policy.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sent a message of congratulations to mark the event, lambasting "big powers" for their "expansionist" policy.
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The jockeying for dominance in the South China Sea, as Beijing seeks to enforce its expansionist claims, is on the agenda.
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In the security realm, nations for the most part have failed to acknowledge the danger posed by an expansionist communist China.
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Lifting sanctions won't just provide an economic boost to Russia; it will also implicitly endorse the country's expansionist activities in Ukraine.
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Greenberg argues that Polk, a slave-owning territorial expansionist, was one of the most powerful and influential first ladies in history.
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And that is exactly what Vladimir Putin wants, this would advance the interests of Putin and other expansionist authoritarians around the world.
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These transformations yielded a sectarian-driven expansionist and interventionist foreign policy, the continuity of which vouchsafes the legitimacy of any Supreme Leader.
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Sousan said intensified dialogue was important when set against challenges, "especially the expansionist ambitions that lead the policies of the Turkish regime".
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Iran's expansionist aspirations are transparent and transcendent, and it is not coincidental that America's key regional allies are opposed to the deal.
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The fact that Russia is in an expansionist phase and uses energy as a foreign policy tool will remain an enormous challenge.
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Another tic of biennials is their expansionist tendency: Tired of the white cube, artists and curators would rather inhabit shops, hospitals, schools.
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Mr. Pompeo has a grand goal of undermining what he calls Iran's "expansionist foreign policy" — a mission that Mr. Trump never mentions.
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The Americans and Lakotas — two expansionist powers, as Hamalainen describes them — were occasional allies, oddly compatible for parts of their shared history.
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In Namibia, an extraordinary influx of investment from China, now unquestionably the world's expansionist superpower, has utterly transformed local economies and communities.
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Anyone who believes in justice, honor and the preservation of peace and prosperity would not be able to support their expansionist ideals.
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So long as Iran's expansionist policies remain unchecked, terrorists like Baghdadi will exploit the Sunni-Shiite conflicts that Tehran specializes in fueling.
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The majority of students would react angrily to any reading material implying that Japan was not an inherently aggressive and expansionist country.
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Iran's expansionist ambitions have begun to chafe under a slowly increasing US hard power deployment in the region, opposition sources have told CNN.
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An expansionist China and aggressive Russia are demonstrating precisely why any weakening of America's nuclear deterrent could hardly come at a worse time.
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In Africa, he said, the greatest threat came not from poverty or Islamist extremism but from an expansionist China, as well as Russia.
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But over the last few years, these hopes have been shattered by the increasingly nationalist, expansionist and statist politics of President Xi Jinping.
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Nissan had been saddled with the excess, "thanks to (Ghosn's) highly aggressive, expansionist volume goals, which we failed to achieve", the source said.
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Kendrick Lamar might be the biggest star in hip-hop, but he wants no part of the expansionist trends sweeping the music's concerts.
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Nissan had been saddled with the excess, "thanks to (Ghosn's) highly aggressive, expansionist volume goals, which we failed to achieve", the source said.
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Built for global scale, they get on with the expansionist goal of maximizing clicks and views by serving more of the same sticky stuff.
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There is no way to confront an expansionist Russia and a rising China without the United States and a strong, united Europe working together.
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On a continent thrown into tumult by the French Revolution and the expansionist ambitions of Napoleon Bonaparte, the term "liberalism" first appeared around 1812.
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The Obama administration did not effectively address the expansionist and destabilizing behavior of former KGB colonel Vladimir Putin, not even after he invaded Ukraine.
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It is not inevitable, however, that those people will be led by an expansionist, imperialist regime with a messianic zeal to dominate the region.
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Rather than Gorbachev, the Russians are now led by someone who is intent on destabilizing our democracy and who has embarked on expansionist territorial ambitions.
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They argue that the United States has no choice but to support the Saudi-led war because it is necessary to oppose an expansionist Iran.
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"The United States faces a revanchist Russia and an expansionist China, both are modernizing their conventional armed forces and expanding their nuclear capabilities," Miller said.
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The compact with Wahhab and his disciples helped the Saud to legitimize an expansionist policy and create a durable state in the early 20th century.
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Iran is a repressive country with a hideous human rights record (just like Saudi Arabia) and an expansionist agenda in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen.
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Similarly, long-established Jewish communities in the Arab world became the collateral damage of the anger at the expansionist policies of the state of Israel.
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But the question of America's fitful, ill-defined and often self-serving foreign policies holds dangers that go far beyond even Russia's most expansionist ambitions.
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"There are examples in history of economically challenged nations making a big expansionist push and you could imagine that for Russia as well," says Mr Timofeev.
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Since America's vow to defend South Korea and Japan is in large part a promise to protect them from China, an expansionist Beijing relishes the idea.
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He bemoaned the expansionist ambitions of arms traders, rising military weapons production and the buildup of "massive stockpiles" of conventional weapons — especially in conflict-prone zones.
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Goldman acknowledges that the market has moved past temporary drags like the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown, while China is embarking on a more expansionist policy.
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" The latest response: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters Tuesday "it is our intention to push back on Iran's expansionist efforts to destabilize the region.
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" In a statement released after the attack, the group said its objectives were "clear -- we will not tolerate any Chinese military expansionist endeavors on Baloch soil.
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Western governments have accused China of widespread rights abuses and its smaller neighbors say it has expansionist ambitions in the South China Sea, things Beijing denies.
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Both regimes were chauvinistic and expansionist, and both were police states with one-man rule and a reliance on terror, concentration camps and the Big Lie.
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Also high on the agenda in the White House talks was confronting Iran, a country Trump has repeatedly criticized for its expansionist policies in the Middle East.
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Some EU member states, such as Britain, the Baltic republics and Poland, argue that sanctions remain a necessary response to what they see as an expansionist Russia.
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NATO won't be able to deter an expansionist Russia if Putin concludes that Trump isn't genuinely committed to defending a member nation that he chooses to attack.
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"China is becoming really expansionist and have to stick to the rules ... we are competing," Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius told reporters before the lunch with Wang.
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On the other hand, Washington has been heavily disturbed by Russia's provocative, expansionist policies in Eastern Europe, as well as their support of the brutal Syrian regime.
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Back then we faced a superpower adversary with a huge standing army, with an arsenal of nuclear weapons, with allies around the world, and with expansionist aims.
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For Zionism, Israeli wars of survival in 1948, 1967 and 1973 yielded to expansionist dreams of Greater Israel that blur the line between religious ideology and security.
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An increasingly expansionist Beijing has declared the South China Sea a sovereign "core interest" and has clashed with Tokyo over an island in the East China Sea.
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"The UAE wants to be seen as the small country that facilitates peace and stability rather than an appendage to a triumphant expansionist Saudi," the source said.
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The country's spiraling debt is at least in part due to successive governments adopting an expansionist fiscal policy characterized by job creation in the bloated public sector.
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He rubs out the criticism of his domestic policies by reminding the marginalized royals and the commoners that he is fighting an existential threat from expansionist Iran.
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In recent years, Beijing revealed the full scope of its ambitions by taking a page from the expansionist playbook of Imperialist Japan in the 1930s and '40s.
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Throughout Zuckerberg's (now) 15-year apology tour turn as Facebook CEO neither the claims he'll do things differently next time nor the cool expansionist ambition have wavered.
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Political analysts said the addition was a setback for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who sees NATO as an expansionist military force on his country's doorstep.
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Perhaps only an expansionist, empire-building era could have thought up an age that began with naval attacks on foreign shores and ended when these attacks ceased.
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The right called Mr. Peres a defeatist for ceding some control of the West Bank, the left called him an expansionist because the agreement didn't end the occupation.
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It is one indicator of how large a role Russia's demographic crisis plays in Moscow's expansionist ambitions toward neighbors that used to be part of the Soviet Union.
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"We all have problems with Iran's expansionist policies in the region," Jordan's foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, said in a news conference with Mr. Pompeo in Amman last week.
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The Sunni Muslim Gulf states intervened in Yemen to restore the exiled government and thwart what Riyadh and Abu Dhabi see as expansionist objectives of their Shi'ite foe Iran.
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The attack "proves that these militias are merely a tool that Iran's regime uses to implement its expansionist agenda," tweeted Prince Khalid bin Salman, a son of King Salman.
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It's also determinedly expansionist and seeks to deepen its influence, directly or through proxies, in Damascus, Beirut, Baghdad, and Sana while working to undermine the region's Sunni Arab governments.
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Op-Ed Contributor Doha, Qatar — If you believe many of the commentators and policy makers in Washington, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is an expansionist on the march.
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Finally, and perhaps most importantly, China is partnering with the leading expansionist power in the region: Russia, which sees the Arctic as key to its future wealth and power.
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In the process he sketched out the back story of his colony's policy of protectionist Savior appeasement, which was inspired by heavy losses sustained during a more expansionist era.
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The Crown Prince also doubled down on his comparison of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to Adolf Hitler in the interview, saying the two both had dangerous expansionist goals.
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Despite all these important initiatives, the president has issued various statements that bolster Kremlin hopes that its expansionist offensives will be overlooked because Trump seeks a rapprochement with Putin.
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The sudden activity and administration messaging about what it calls "Iran's expansionist policy" have led some observers to compare the strategy to the Bush administration's march to war with Iraq.
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The Saturday Profile HONOLULU — He has called China "provocative and expansionist," accusing it of "creating a Great Wall of sand" and "clearly militarizing" the disputed waters of the Western Pacific.
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In doing so, it can maintain the international cohesion needed to focus on countering and reversing the broader expansionist strategy, national security threats, and destabilizing activities of Iran in parallel.
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But those discussions will likely not be as heated as the disputes over the South and East China seas and China's expansionist construction of artificial islands near global shipping lanes.
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Peter Bergen called it a devastating portrait of blunders -- by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other American officials -- that cited "an emboldened and expansionist Iran" as the only apparent victor.
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But I think there was also a fear that China could end up parlaying its economic heft into a more strategic influence that then feeds into its somewhat expansionist tendencies.
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Over the years he converted to Islam, married and raised a family, and became a living relic of the high-water mark of Russia's last period of expansionist foreign policy.
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Under Mr. Xi, the Red Aristocrats have gutted the lie-low-bide-time approach favored by Deng and his successors for an expansionist and hyper-nationalist position reminiscent of Mao's.
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Israel under Mr. Netanyahu has depended heavily on the Trump administration's support in confronting Tehran over its nuclear ambitions and over its expansionist moves in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
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The deputy crown prince viewed the nuclear deal as "very dangerous", the senior adviser said, adding that both leaders had identical views on "the danger of Iran's regional expansionist activities".
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Iran has continued to proliferate advanced missile technology to its proxies, support terrorism and pursue expansionist regional ambitions including destabilizing activities in Syria and Yemen, along with provocations toward Israel.
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This leads her down a path to the heart of the Empire's expansionist ambitions, where the technology in her head might be a critical bargaining chip for the aging Teixcalaanli emperor.
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But it also serves a strategic purpose: sending a defiant message to a resurgent and expansionist China by allowing Vietnam to strengthen military ties with an increasingly diverse group of countries.
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In recent years the mayhem on its southern borders, coupled with renewed tension pitting its NATO and European allies against an expansionist Russia, have made its position all the more delicate.
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Given the new National Defense Strategy's emphasis on countering China's expansionist agenda, one can hope for additional rations of "Peace through Strength" for Taiwan to further complicate the PRC's invasion calculus.
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What about the case that killing Soleimani means undercutting the regime's aggressive expansionist policy in the Middle East — is there at least a strategic defense of the decision on that front?
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The fifth-century Christian theologian Augustine of Hippo railed against those Christians who sacralized the expansionist history of Rome as the steady progress of God's plan to unify and Christianize the world.
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With these lessons in mind, and aware of sanctions fatigue in France and other European powers, Tillerson might conclude that a new approach offers better prospects for curtailing Putin's latent expansionist tendencies.
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Containing Iran Iran is thought to have expansionist ambitions, and these ambitions have begun to chafe under a slowly increasing US hard power deployment in the region, opposition sources have told CNN.
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"We must carefully craft a strategy that targets and defeats the expansionist, bloodthirsty and supremacist inspirations that fuel jihadist groups while not abridging the peaceful and tolerant worship of God," he said.
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More preposterous still, later on, is the gleam of golden arches reflected in Ray's windshield, and the drumroll that we hear just before he reveals his expansionist dream to Mac and Dick.
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Despite Burlington College not having the money or the students for it, Sanders sells her board of trustees on an expansionist vision, saying she will help the school grow into the new campus.
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Russia pursues an "expansionist" policy in eastern Europe though this might not amount to attempts to destabilize countries in the region, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff said on Thursday.
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President Zeman has just faced the worst two or three months of his long political career, a career capped by his slavish devotion to Putin's expansionist plans for Russia and the Near Abroad.
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After the 1844 election brought a victory for the aggressively expansionist Democrat James K. Polk, lame duck Tyler caught the wave and signed a joint resolution offering annexation to the republic of Texas.
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The lamassu was probably installed during the reign of King Sennacherib, who ruled from 705 to 681 B.C. He was an expansionist leader under whom Nineveh became the capital of the Assyrian Empire.
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Perhaps this particular insult simply stems from many British people's long suspicion of the EU as a German expansionist project -- and therefore Soubry, a pro-EU politician, as some kind of Germanic stooge.
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Analysts said it may weaken further as the United States embarks on an expansionist fiscal policy under president-elect Donald Trump and raises rates, reducing capital flows to emerging markets, including South Africa.
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The Saudis, under King Salman, began replacing the old ideological glue of Wahhabism with a populist, militarized Saudi nationalism, which feeds off the threat of an expansionist Iran and its aggressive Shiite nationalism.
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In reality, Iran is an aggressive and expansionist power that is actively exploiting sectarian fault lines to remake the Arabian Peninsula-Persian Gulf region and the wider Middle East in its own revolutionary image.
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No visionary, he adopted a cautious, day-by-day approach to the job; assembled a competent Cabinet; and allowed his Secretary of State to pursue what Reeves calls a "formidable" and "expansionist" foreign policy.
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President Donald Trump will commence a five-nation Asia tour on Friday to try to reaffirm American leadership in a region beset by tensions from a nuclear-armed North Korea and an expansionist China.
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Any message -- direct or indirect -- to the Russian government that the sanctions are up for debate runs the risk of implying that Russia can continue pursuing its expansionist goals in Eastern Europe without recourse.
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In his talks, he has stressed the need to roll back Iran's "expansionist foreign policy" and tamp down the influence of the political and military groups in Arab nations that are supported by Iran.
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The growing threat of an expansionist Russia, combined with President Trump's reluctance to recognize this threat and Britain's increasing retreat to isolationism, shows that Europe needs to take more responsibility for its own security.
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Nissan is planning aggressive cost cuts to deal with an unexpected slump in sales as the expansionist strategy it inherited from fugitive former Chairman Carlos Ghosn flounders, four people familiar with the plans said.
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An emasculated peace in the Korean peninsula based on fear instead of deterrence may lead to the retrenchment of U.S. presence in the Asia-Pacific that further emboldens America's main adversary, an expansionist China.
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Monday's Eurogroup meeting did little to ease the standoff between Italy and the European Union over the 2019 Italian budget, and reignited concerns that Italy's expansionist budget was a threat to the euro system.
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In the early expansionist years of World War II, it was the most performed Beethoven work in Germany, until the tide of battle turned and Nazi presenters favored the more tragically hued Fifth Symphony.
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The debt has grown at least in part because successive governments have adopted expansionist fiscal policies characterized by job creation in the bloated public sector and by lavish subsidies for bread and other staple goods.
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"The aggressive behavior of the Erdogan regime clearly shows the Turkish expansionist ambitions in the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic and cannot be justified under any pretext," a statement from Syria's foreign ministry said.
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A Memory Called Empire explores the good and the bad of that — bad, in that an expansionist, colonial-minded entity like the Teixcalaanli threaten to overwhelm their neighbors and replace their cultures with their own.
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Most economists expect the central bank to raise the rate by 50 basis points on Wednesday, though they are concerned such a move will place it in conflict with the government's more expansionist fiscal stance.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads First among the reasons for the Museum of Modern Art's expansionist dreams was the need to punch up its hidebound historical narrative with new locales, characters, and plot twists.
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The debt is at least in part due to successive governments adopting an expansionist fiscal policy characterized by job creation in the bloated public sector, and by lavish subsidies for bread and other staple goods.
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The debt is at least in part due to successive governments adopting an expansionist fiscal policy characterised by job creation in the bloated public sector, and by lavish subsidies for bread and other staple goods.
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Yet behind the smoke and mirrors, Russia remains a Potemkin village that hides a police state and an expansionist empire, steeped in systemic corruption and governed by up-to-date techniques of repression and manipulation.
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A growing Chinese population in Russia will enable China to become more politically intrusive by claiming to protect them, just as Moscow asserts it is defending Russian speakers to pursue its expansionist agenda in Europe.
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RUSSIA HACKS 500,000 ROUTERS IN ATTEMPT TO ATTACK UKRAINE In Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin&aposs spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that an expanding NATO&aposs presence and infrastructure towards Russia&aposs borders was an "expansionist" move.
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"On the contrary, these expansionist actions, of course, lead to counteraction from the Russian side in order to balance the parity, which is violated every time in this way," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said in May.
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And yet too many people in Washington and elsewhere seem myopically focused on just one factor: Iran, which they view as controlling and dominating the situation in Iraq in pursuit of an ambitious, expansionist foreign policy.
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And I think that expansionist mentality is very self-destructive, especially given the kind of precarious relationship we now have to the ecosystem here on Earth, because it allows us to imagine that Earth is disposable.
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Saudi Arabia leads a coalition of Sunni Muslim Arab states which intervened in Yemen's war in 2015 to restore the internationally recognized government in exile and thwart what Riyadh sees as Tehran's expansionist ambitions in the region.
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And whether or not the new Trump administration supports the continued rotations as a counter to Vladimir Putin's expansionist approach is a key question even as the first brigade begins its nine-month tour in Eastern Europe.
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"The aggressive behavior of the Erdogan regime clearly shows the Turkish expansionist ambitions in the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic and cannot be justified under any pretext," a source at the Foreign Ministry said, SANA reported.
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In an early gallery here are two somber portraits of Spain's Habsburg kings: the expansionist Philip II, painted by Titian in stern semiprofile, and his grandson Philip IV, depicted by Diego Velázquez with his trademark handlebar mustache.
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In addition to the range of tools that should be deployed to end their expansionist campaign, the time is ripe for America and its Arab and Muslim allies to begin healing the damage Iran has already caused.
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He also said a main aim of the Trump administration's hard-line approach was to contain Iran's "expansionist foreign policy," primarily its support for Shiite militias that have allowed Tehran to exert political influence across the region.
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Rimowa is on an expansionist path, opening three more stores in the United States before the end of the year (one in Miami, two in Las Vegas), and increasing its presence in Berlin, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
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But Iran, rather than confronting the isolation it has created for itself, opts to obscure its dangerous sectarian and expansionist policies, as well as its support for terrorism, by leveling unsubstantiated charges against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Russia and its allies ran a global propaganda campaign to frame its intervention as an "anti-imperialist" move against an expansionist EU, which they claimed was hell-bent on spreading same-sex marriage and overturning other local values.
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Instead, the administration should make countering Iran's multi-national network of fighters a focal point of U.S. policy and build broad support to sanction and reverse Iran's expansionist, malign activities, as part of a broader strategy for Iran.
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In fact, Iran's Shia militias are already demonstrating the ability to integrate military power, social services, and ideological training to affect enduring strategic and political outcomes on the ground, pushing forward Iran's larger, expansionist agenda across the region.
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Looking at the threats around the world, from extremism to Ebola to an expansionist China, it is clear that we cannot ignore the damage from taking our civilian corps off of the playing field, even for a moment.
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Former Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg has lauded its approach, calling for more "boring" banking based on borrowing and lending over the risk-taking and expansionist policies in the global industry that helped cause the 22015 financial crisis.
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Immerwahr knows that the material he presents is serious, laden with exploitation and violence, but he also knows how to tell a story, highlighting the often absurd space that opened up between expansionist ambitions and ingenuous self-regard.
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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.
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The expansionist strategy of his long-standing predecessor, Ratan Tata, which increased the group's revenues from around $22011 billion to $213 billion over two decades, had expanded the firm's girth but dented returns in some parts of its business.
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He could show a united front with NATO allies, declaring unequivocally that America remains committed to mutual defense and vowing that the United States and NATO will maintain a protective umbrella over Eastern Europeans who fear Russia's expansionist policies.
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"Nobody knows for sure where that rate stands, but the bank may signal it wants a lower rate to take monetary policy into expansionist territory," said Jensen, adding that he is considering revising down his 9.5 percent year-end Selic forecast.
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There is the standard "rise to power" campaign where you take part in an expansionist drag race to become the unchallenged hegemon of the setting, which has been the basis of most Total War games since the original Shogun in 2000.
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Thirty years on Mr Barr, who will shortly become America's attorney-general, has had to defend himself in his Senate confirmation hearings against the charge, which stems partly from the memo, that he holds an alarmingly expansionist theory of the presidency.
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Iraq is also some analysts' and governments' watch list as the authorities in Baghdad battle to stop IS from spreading further in the territory and taking more control of the country's oil producing facilities that help to fund its expansionist ambitions.
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Jordan has seen public debt spiral to nearly $40 billion, driven in part by the expansionist fiscal policies of successive governments keen to create jobs and raise public sector pay to head off an repeat of 2011 "Arab Spring" unrest.
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Erdogan himself is an expansionist power, of sorts, and his actions have been reminiscent of what any aspiring imperial power often does when it requires more land, more resources and more proof of its own achievements: It goes to war.
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In 2016 Hungary and Greece, who have received billions of euros of Chinese investments in harbors, railways and power stations, blocked a reference to Beijing in a European Union statement criticizing its expansionist territorial claims in the South China Sea.
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Another place that would prefer a more quiet America is China, a country that has been sharply at odds with the U.S. over Beijing's expansionist policies in the South China Sea and its human rights policies, to name just a couple of issues.
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While his right-wing coalition colleagues want to use the new occupant of the White House to further their expansionist agenda in the West Bank, Mr Netanyahu is now much more hopeful that President Trump will make America Iran's Great Satan again.
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Faced with the "profound change in the naval strategic panorama", including the expansionist aims of Beijing in the South China Sea, France considers the aircraft carrier of incomparable "tactical and political value", said Admiral Christophe Prazuck, Chief of Staff of the French Navy.
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Within a culture he knew could easily turn on young men of color for something as simple as the grooming choice of cornrows, this was a fine line Stern walked and the calculated game he played across three expansionist decades at the helm.
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The expansionist push comes as President Nana Akufo-Addo and his ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) look to next year's presidential and parliamentary elections, with former president John Mahama's National Democratic Congress (NDC) aiming to build an opposition coalition comprising nine entities.
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" Tillerson, former CEO of Exxon Mobil, took a hard line toward China's island-building and expansionist claims in the oft-disputed South China Sea, an international body of water and crucial trade route, and compared the country's recent aggression there to "Russia's taking of Crimea.
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To that end it will roll back an aggressive expansionist strategy Ghosn set in motion under a five-year plan called Power 88 which aimed to raise profit margins and global market share to 8 percent by fiscal 2016 - goals which were never achieved.
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Nearly all Americans who've served in the last 50 years have taken part in similar exercises, because our military leaders — and commanders in chief from both political parties — recognized the threats posed to our country by the Soviet Union's, and later Russia's, expansionist desires.
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Since Trump's election in November, bond yields have been pushed higher around the world by expectations that expansionist fiscal policies such as tax cuts and increased infrastructure spending would boost the economy and inflation, keeping pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.
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BRUSSELS — NATO, a pillar of the global order, emerged from a two-day confrontation with President Trump on Thursday intact but distracted and shaken, a further challenge to the alliance as it faces an expansionist Russia and growing authoritarianism among some of its own members.
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Once news broke that Kim Il-sung, Mr. Kim's grandfather, had ordered the North's invasion of the South in June 1950, the Truman administration assumed that the move was a prelude to a vaster, coordinated expansionist plan masterminded by the Communists in Moscow and Beijing.
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"What we are doing is denying the regime the revenue that it needs to run an expansionist foreign policy, and by that policy, Iran has less money to spend today than it did almost three years ago when we came into office," the official said.
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"China has grown their battle fleet to about 335 surface ships, and that's occurred over the last 10 years as they've shifted from a build-up of their homeland defense forces and moved to the sea in an expansionist role around the globe," Rear Adm.
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But there was fear that Mr. Trump's "America First" approach would leave Europe on its own, while Russia's expansionist president, Vladimir V. Putin, whom Mr. Trump openly admires, worked to undermine confidence in NATO security guarantees and in the cohesion of the European Union itself.
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The questions on everyone's lips a month ago, in the wake of the previous attacks on international shipping in the area, was this: Would a Trump-MBS alliance trigger a regional war, fueled by Trump's craving for popularity and MBS' desire to destroy Iran's expansionist theocrats?
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Some European finance ministers and EU officials I had talked to beforehand suggested they expected exactly this kind of climbdown and said they saw it as the natural consequence of a market keen to enforce disciplinary limits on Italy's most expansionist spending plans in a generation.
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After the demise of the USSR and its Cold War ideological struggle with democratic nations, former KGB officer Vladimir Putin has shifted Russia's focus toward espionage, hacking and cracking, and destabilizing democracies to support the expansionist goals of their country, and personal profit for their leaders.
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When, as prime minister, Disraeli played down the Turkish massacre of Bulgarian Christians to focus instead on Russia's exploitation of the event to further its expansionist efforts, Disraeli's enemies accused him of defending a Muslim nation and threatening war with a Christian one out of Semitic sympathy.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sent congratulations to North Korea ahead of Kim Il Sung's birthday and said the two countries were "conducting a war against big powers' wild ambition to subject all countries to their expansionist and dominationist policy," North Korea's KCNA news agency said.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump welcomed the prime minister of Vietnam to the Oval Office on Wednesday, cutting business deals and discussing the transfer of a Coast Guard cutter to a onetime enemy that the United States now views as a front-line defender against an expansionist China.
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"The settlement project under this deal is one of the biggest dangers and aims to do away with the right of return ... and to create social and demographic tension and sedition that only serve the enemy's interests and expansionist goals," the movement said in a statement.
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Second, Mr. Trump should arrive with concrete proposals to help Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Cooperation Council allies deter Iran, which they see as an expansionist revolutionary power seeking to upend the established order in the Middle East, undermining both security in their countries and American interests.
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But the centerpiece of Reagan's engagement strategy sprung from the belief that the Kremlin was more prone to taking risky expansionist policies when the Russians believed that they had the strategic advantage over the US. Diplomacy worked because Reagan chose to negotiate, but didn't back down from military confrontation.
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What we now think of as the brilliantly successful postwar international order was a response to the repeated tragedies that had preceded it — and the menace of an expansionist, illiberal Soviet Union reminded Americans that tragedy could all too easily recur if the United States pursued a different path.
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"I foresee that the expansionist ethos of museums, which apes the world of business, is unsustainable and potentially corrupting, or at the very least distracting from the museums' main mission," Anna Somers Cocks, the founding editor and chairman of The Art Newspaper, wrote in its 300th anniversary issue.
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A centerpiece of the trip will be a visit to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Danang, Vietnam, where Trump will deliver a speech in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific region, which is seen as offering a bulwark in response to expansionist Chinese policies.
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He will take charge of a group that, under Colao, pulled back from its once brazen expansionist drive to be able to build up its European operations from a pure mobile player to a broader communications provider that offers everything from cable TV to broadband and enterprise services.
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"The friendly two countries are celebrating this anniversary and, at the same time, conducting a war against big powers' wild ambition to subject all countries to their expansionist and dominationist policy and deprive them of their rights to self-determination, " Russian news agency Tass quote the message as saying.
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It was a 2014 legal challenge lodged locally against the company's unlicensed p2p services that went all the way up to Europe's top court, where judges last year ruled that Uber is a transportation company not a tech platform — thereby outlawing its earlier expansionist playbook of taxi law circumvention.
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News Analysis WASHINGTON — In repeating his readiness to pursue a new nuclear deal with Iran, President Trump this week left unmentioned his administration's aim to hobble what officials call Tehran's "expansionist foreign policy" — an ambitious priority that is far more likely to lead the United States into war.
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A centerpiece of the trip will be a visit to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Danang, Vietnam, where he will deliver a speech in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific region, which is seen as offering a bulwark in response to expansionist Chinese policies.
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But the hearing painted a disturbing portrait of fatigued crews and commanders on a shrinking overseas fleet saddled with constant deployments — including confronting an expansionist Chinese military and keeping vigil on a nuclear saber-rattling North Korea — with little time left to train or to repair aging ships.
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And while countering ISIS is a leading motive behind the president's decision — one that is being emphasized to avoid triggering the need for congressional authorization for the use of force — the announced Syria policy is primarily about countering an expansionist Iran, a much more capable long-term foe.
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Abdirahman M. Ahmed, who runs Green Djibouti International, an environmental social enterprise, said many people viewed foreign militaries as a stabilizing force, given their country's diminutive size, its lack of resources and the potential threats from neighbors like Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea, where expansionist sentiments continue to burble.
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As both countries vie for a greater role in the Syrian war, we are reminded of the position that both Ankara and Moscow have adopted in recent years as skilled propagandists, spreading the kind of expansionist politics that the subjects of Young Turks have internalized in the name of culture.
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As soon as the coalition forces entered Kuwait in mid-February 1991, putting an end to Saddam Hussein's expansionist dream in barely two weeks, I realized that the "real" story would now move to Kuwait's oil fields, where over 600 wells were on fire and many others had been badly damaged.
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On December 26, the military council of Jaysh al-Fatah, a rebel coalition whose name translates to "Army of Conquest," announced on social media a "general call to arms" for Muslims around the world, urging the Islamic nation's scholars to rally Muslim youth to stand against what it called an Iranian expansionist design.
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Christian Poirier, program director of Amazon Watch, told Axios he believes Bolsonaro's controversial rhetoric about minority groups is actually tied to his interest in removing environmental protections "He attacks indigenous groups, or traditional communities such as 'Quilombolas' because they represent one of the main obstacles to execute his industrial expansionist plan," he says.
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Moon reluctantly allowed the deployment of a US missile defense system to proceed last year, and the South Korean military regularly takes part in drills with the US military, to the consternation of not only Pyongyang but also Beijing, which sees the US presence as a hindrance to its own expansionist ambitions.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement that the move was meant to deprive "the Iranian regime of the funding it needs to sustain its expansionist foreign policy," and demanded an end to "nuclear threats and escalation," testing of ballistic missiles, support for terrorist groups and detention of foreign citizens.
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"A lot of their day-to-day decision-making, whether it's the deployment of units or expansionist tendencies in certain governorates — for example, their decision to take over a particular infrastructure point or to expand economic activities — are driven by their own domestic strategic calculations," said Erica Gaston, a non-resident fellow at the New America Foundation.
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"One of the strongest conclusions of Trumponomics: we don't know exactly whether Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde wins - whether Trump the expansionist or Trump the protectionist - but what we do know is that under almost any scenario or mix of the two, you get higher inflation," Fels said at the Reuters Global Investment Outlook Summit in New York.
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Iran, meanwhile, is silently sidling through the region, shoring up its influence and control in Syria and Iraq, adding to bin Salman's visceral fears of an expansionist theocracy that not only throws shade on the regional role he wants for himself, but highlights another of his fears that some of the greatest threats to his own power are getting too close for comfort.
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Ms. Powell smartly recognizes a truth that many in the industry elide: A lack of diversity is not just one of several issues for Silicon Valley to fix, but is instead the keystone problem — the source of much else that ails tech, from its recklessly expansionist zeal to the ways its brightest companies keep stepping in problems of their own making.
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But the heritage endures: in the Russian dialect spoken in the village of Ninilchik; in the state's name ("Alaska" is a Russian adaptation of an Aleut word meaning "the object toward which the action of the sea is directed"); in the thousands of adherents to the Russian Orthodox faith; and in the expansionist imaginations of some Russians who still grumble about the sale.
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As authoritarianism grows to unprecedented heights in Turkey, with a near complete gag on freedom of expression, a fresh cycle of bombings in Istanbul, and the EU's new promise to return Syrian refugees to Turkey (a country with a very poor record for honoring diversity), it is imperative to consider the full implication of Gülen's expansionist project and its ties to Turkey's opaque foreign policy.
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Indeed, it was a 2014 legal challenge by a Barcelona taxi industry association to Uber's unlicensed UberPop service that led to Europe's top court to rule last year that Uber is a transport service, meaning the company has to comply with EU Member States' individual transportation regulations — and can't simply claim it's a technology platform to circumvent regulators as it did in its early expansionist phase.
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But it enjoys an afterlife: in the Russian dialect spoken in the village of Ninilchik; in the name ("Alaska" is a Russian adaptation of an Aleut word meaning "the object toward which the action of the sea is directed"); in the thousands of adherents to the Russian Orthodox faith and an onion-domed church in Unalaska, above; and in the expansionist imaginations of some Russians who still grumble about the sale.
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Mohamed Nasheed, the opposition leader, who has largely lived in exile since his term as the country's first democratically elected president ended in a coup of sorts in 2012, fears that an expansionist China is propping up Mr. Yameen to lock the country into a "debt trap" — a term that refers to China's taking over of infrastructure projects when a country cannot pay back its loans, such as the recent takeover of a port in Sri Lanka.
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