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In the spirit of civilized academic discourse, panelists at Cornell President David J. Skorton's inaugural academic symposium argued the causes and contradictions of current American foreign policy, differing on the motives behind and consequences of the U.S. military invasion of Iraq.
She pointed to the Bush administration's "disturbing contempt" and repudiation of global law, and its desire to "slough off limits" imposed by international law, not unlike Stalin or Hitler, she said.
America's apparent troubles abroad, Katzenstein said, are not just "one more episode" in liberal expansion, but rather the result of a radical, neoconservative doctrine.
Expansionism is the doctrine of expanding the territorial base (or economic influence) of a country, usually by means of military aggression.
Irredentism, revanchism or reunification are sometimes used to justify and legitimize expansionism, but only when the explicit goal is to reconquer territories that have been lost, or even to take over ancestral lands.
A simple territorial dispute, such as a border dispute, is not usually referred to as expansionism.
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