North Atlanticist

English Etymology From en North Atlantic ist. Noun North Atlanticist en rare nonstandard A denizen or dweller of the North Atlantic en rare nonstandard An inhabitant of a nation that borders the North Atlantic One whose political views support the North Atlantic countries as a power base, especially a supporter of NATO. en 1986 Worldwide Report: Arms control 19 What is it that has so upset the North Atlanticists who only recently applauded the decision by R. Lubbers' right-centrist cabinet to accept the new U.S. nuclear missiles on the Netherlands soil in 1988? en 1986 Res publica - Volume 27 257 A remarkable fact that this updated position came into being without the presence of CVP Minister of Foreign Affairs, L. Tindemans, a faithful North Atlanticist and a supporter of the placing of the missiles, at the party meeting in question. en 1991 Europe Without Walls Roberto Giorgio Rabel 142 That Mrs Thatcher, friend of Ronald Reagan and North Atlanticist, has been replaced by John Major and a more committedly European cabinet, does not resolve the issue. en 2003 War in the Twentieth Century: Reflections at Century's End Michael A. Hennessy; B. J. C. McKercher 90 Nor can the common vision of the North Atlanticists, who made up the second tier of officials within the Foreign Ministries of the three allies, be underestimated as well. Adjective en rare nonstandard Of, or pertaining to the North Atlantic en 1999 Middle East at the Crossroads Manochehr Dorraj 274 However, between 1986-88 Japan was pushed into a corner by her North-Atlanticist allies when the latter sent their fleet to the Gulf, internationalizing the regional conflict. en 2006 The Situated Politics of Belonging Nira Yuval-Davis; Kalpana Kannabiran 87 Lewis (1999) is specifically addressing the American-African diaspora in a North Atlanticist frame . en 2007 Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame Sandhya Shukla; Heidi Tinsman 182 U.S. citizens live in an era of liberal obliviousness and media spectacles when, as the distinguished Cuban literary critic Roberto Retamar reminds us of North-South imbalances, "it is said that imperialism has ceased to exist, or when its reality is hidden behind terms such as globalization or New World Order" or masqueraded in metropolitan discourses and what he calls (with the skepticism of a Caribbean-based Caliban toward North Atlanticist Prospero's ever-white magic of techno-speak cultural domination) the "semantic carnival" of hypertextual postcoloniality. en 2012 Flood Risk and Social Justice Zoran Vojinovic; Michael B. Abbott 64 The mutually reinforceing social-religious and economic developments over the period rought from 1450 to the 1960s had in turn the consequence that one part of Europe, essentially the North-Atlanticist part, came to colonise almost the whole world, for the most part directly, and for the remaining part indirectly, building new cities as they went, and then mostly along the coasts from where they exported their ill-gotten gains. en Demonyms