Early geopoliticians rationalized imperial expansion through national destiny ideologies

Evidence

Each tilted his answer towards a national interest, and in so doing conceded the right of a particular people to command its own particular place and, if survival, necessity, or moral certitudes impelled it, to expand in the name of ‘manifest destiny’ (USA), the ‘white man’s burden’ (Britain), the ‘mission civilisatrice’ (France) or the need for ‘Lebensraum’ (Germany). — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1741

Categorization

• XREF: The four imperial slogans map onto the same nationalizing spatial logic that later territorial struggle resurfaces; relevant to periodization comparisons between nation-state and globalized capital phases. — connects to: Rapid industrialization historically drives major powers toward expansion and imperialism — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 615; Assimilationist gradualism recycled racist readiness rationales for empire — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 750; Public humanitarian language masked private economic motives in imperial expansion — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 751 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Rapid industrialization historically drives major powers toward expansion and imperialism #expands (0.85) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 615
• Assimilationist gradualism recycled racist readiness rationales for empire #expands (0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 750
• Public humanitarian language masked private economic motives in imperial expansion #qualifies (0.75) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 751
• Imperialism as policy emerged from nineteenth-century European capital stagnation #qualifies (0.72)