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  2. Appeasement - Wikipedia

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    Appeasement, in an international context, is a diplomatic negotiation policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power with intention to avoid conflict. [1]

  3. Peace and conflict studies - Wikipedia

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    Appeasement in a strategy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power to avoid conflict. [35] Deterrence is a strategy to use threats or limited force to dissuade an actor from escalating conflict, [ 36 ] typically because the prospective attacker believes that the probability of success is low and the costs ...

  4. Lesson of Munich - Wikipedia

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    The policy of appeasement underestimated Hitler's ambitions by believing that enough concessions would secure a lasting peace. [1] Today, the agreement is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement toward Germany, [2] and a diplomatic triumph for Hitler.

  5. Historical geography - Wikipedia

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    Historical geography is the branch of geography that studies the ways in which geographic phenomena have changed over time. [1] In its modern form, it is a synthesizing discipline which shares both topical and methodological similarities with history , anthropology , ecology , geology , environmental studies , literary studies , and other fields.

  6. Far East - Wikipedia

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    Empire's End: A History of the Far East from High Colonialism to Hong Kong (Scribner, 1997). online; Louis, Wm Roger. "The road to Singapore: British imperialism in the Far East, 1932–42." in The fascist challenge and the policy of appeasement (Routledge, 2021) pp. 352–388. Macnair, Harley F. & Donald Lach. Modern Far Eastern International ...

  7. History of geography - Wikipedia

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    The History of geography includes many histories of geography which have differed over time and between different cultural and political groups. In more recent ...

  8. Geopolitics - Wikipedia

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    In disciplines outside geography, geopolitics is not negatively viewed (as it often is among academic geographers such as Carolyn Gallaher or Klaus Dodds) as a tool of imperialism or associated with Nazism, but rather viewed as a valid and consistent manner of assessing major international geopolitical circumstances and events, not necessarily ...

  9. Military occupation - Wikipedia

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    A dominant principle that guided combatants through much of history was "to the victory belong the spoils". [8] Emer de Vattel, in The Law of Nations (1758), presented an early codification of the distinction between annexation of territory and military occupation, the latter being regarded as temporary, due to the natural right of states to their "continued existence". [8]