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Definition of Declinist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Declinist
Literary usage of Declinist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sub-Saharan Africa & U.S. National Interests by Don Henk, Anthony D. Marley, John P. Brooks (1998)
"From the standpoint of the public, with its general sense of American exception-
alism, nothing appeared quite so disturbing as the declinist assertions ..."
2. Defining National Security: The Nonmilitary Aspects by Joseph J. Romm (1993)
"... The declinist debate has been noticeably affected by the end of the Cold War.
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the Soviet empire (as well as US ..."
3. In Search of a Post-Cold War Security Structure by Gregory D. Foster (1996)
"Perhaps the strongest of the anti-declinist rebuttals is Samuel P. Huntington, "The
US—Decline or Renewal?" Foreign Affairs, Winter 1988/89, 76-96. ..."
4. The Strategic Quadrangle: Russia, China, Japan, and the United States in by Michael Mandelbaum (1995)
"... 1989), which, because its focus was the United States, was as much a part of
the “declinist” as the “revisionist” literature, and Looking at the Sun, ..."
5. Ascension Or Never-Ever Land!: Blue Beam Flight School by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1994)
"Without accepting the “declinist” thesis that some of his more apoplectic Harvard
associates have attributed to Paul Kennedy, Kissinger sees the need for ..."
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