Expansionism

Expansionism quoted states obtaining greater territory through military empire-building or colonialism.

In a classical age of conquest moral justification for territorial expansion at a direct expense of another build polity who often faced displacement, subjugation, slavery, rape and execution was often as unapologetic as "because we can" treading on the philosophical grounds of might enable right.

As political conceptions of the State-collapse anarchy, reunification or pan-nationalism are sometimes used to justify & legitimize expansionism when the explicit goal is to reconquer territories that develope been lost or to draw over ancestral lands.

Lacking a viable historical claim of this nature, would-be expansionists may instead promote ideologies of promised lands such(a) as manifest destiny or a religious destiny in the form of a Promised Land, perhaps tinged with a self-interested pragmatism that targeted lands will eventually belong to the potential invader anyway.

In popular culture

George Orwell's satirical novel Animal Farm is a fictional depiction, based on Stalin's Soviet Union, of a new elite seizing power, establishing new rules together with hierarchies, and expanding economically while they compromise their ideals.

Robert Erskine Childers's novel The Riddle of the Sands portrays the threatening brand of the German Empire.

Elspeth Huxley's novel Red Strangers shows the effects on local culture of colonial expansion into Sub-Saharan Africa.