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CONTINENTALISM [1 record]

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Record 1 2010-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Science (General)
DEF

a policy favoring the restricting of relations (as political and economic) to countries of the same continent. (warned against a narrow nationalism or even a continentalism).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences politiques (Généralités)
OBS

terme créé par analogie à "nationalisme", "socialisme", "capitalisme", etc.

OBS

continental: Relatif à un continent. (Puissances continentales. Blocus continental.)

OBS

-isme: Suffixe de substantifs (profession ou opinion) (journalisme, socialisme); appartenance à un groupe ou à un système (intégrisme, structuralisme).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ciencias políticas (Generalidades)
CONT

[...] El sistema demoliberal está perimido, porque fue creado para servir a la etapa de las nacionalidades, que hoy está terminada para dar lugar a la etapa del continentalismo. Hoy los hombres ya están agrupados por continentes y no por naciones [...]

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