Editing Lebensraum (section)

==Contemporary usages==
Since the end of World War II, the term {{lang|de|Lebensraum}} has been used in relation to different countries, including China,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ian G. Cook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_1UrBxTJnD0C&pg=PA140 |title=China's Third Revolution: Tensions in the Transition Towards a Post-Communist China |last2=Geoffrey Murray |publisher=Psychology Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-7007-1307-3 |page=140}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Orville Schell |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=10gh6j463nAC&pg=PT607 |title=The China Reader: The Reform Era |last2=David L. Shambaugh |publisher=Random House |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-307-76622-9 |pages=607–608}}</ref> Egypt,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gabriel R. Warburg, Uri M. Kupferschmidt |title=Islam Nationalism and Radicalism in Egypt and the Sudan |publisher=Praeger |year=1983 |isbn=978-0275910983 |page=217}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=John Marlowe |title=Arab Nationalism and British Imperialism |publisher=Praeger |year=1961 |isbn=978-1258497705 |page=78}}</ref> Israel,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Krämer |first=Gudrun |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWrW_CKODdQC&pg=PA322 |title=A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-691-15007-9 |page=322}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Finkelstein |first=Norman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vNb5VkyxDlYC&pg=PR29 |title=Image and Reality of the Israel–Palestine Conflict |publisher=Verso Books |year=1995 |isbn=978-1-85984-442-7 |page=xxix}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bidwell |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi_CThWrKCAC&pg=PA441 |title=Dictionary of Modern Arab History |publisher=Routledge |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-7103-0505-3 |page=441 |quote=The Israeli government began to expropriate more Arab land as {{lang|de|Lebensraum}} for Jewish agricultural rather than strategic settlements and to take water traditionally used by local farmers. A particularly unjust example led to the Land Day Riots of March 1976 but in 1977 Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon stated that there was a long term plan to settle 2 million Jews in the occupied Territories by 2000: this was an ideological pursuit of Greater Israel.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=El-Din El-Din Haseeb |first=Khair |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SgyKLXaBcxIC&pg=PA226 |title=The Future of the Arab Nation: Challenges and Options: Volume 2 |publisher=Routledge |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-136-25185-6 |page=226 |quote=In light of Israel's international relations and its broad regional concept of {{lang|de|Lebensraum}}, it will retain and even improve the degree of its military superiority.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Graham |first=Stephen |title=Cities, War and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics (Studies in Urban and Social Change) |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-4051-1575-9 |page=204 |doi=10.1002/9780470753033.index |quote=Eitam argues that, ultimately, Israel should strive to force or 'persuade' all Arabs and Palestinians to leave Israel and the occupied territories—to be accommodated in Jordan and the Sinai (Egypt)&nbsp;... Eitam has even explicitly used the German concept of Lebensraum (living space)—a cornerstone of the [[Holocaust]]—to underpin his arguments.}}</ref> Turkey,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tufekci |first=Ozgur |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u-mKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA17 |title=The Foreign Policy of Modern Turkey: Power and the Ideology of Eurasianism |date=2017 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-78673-117-3 |page=17 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Stein |first=Aaron |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315657110 |title=Turkey's New Foreign Policy: Davutoglu, the AKP and the Pursuit of Regional Order |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-315-65711-0 |edition=1 |pages=7 |language=en |doi=10.4324/9781315657110}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Klinke |first1=Ian |last2=Bassin |first2=Mark |date=2018-07-01 |title=Introduction: Lebensraum and its discontents |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305748817302451 |journal=Journal of Historical Geography |language=en |volume=61 |pages=53–58 |doi=10.1016/j.jhg.2018.05.019 |issn=0305-7488 |s2cid=150111274}}</ref> Poland,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Balogun |first=Bolaji |year=2017 |title=Polish Lebensraum: the colonial ambition to expand on racial terms |url=http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/123365/14/Polish%20Lebensraum%20-%20Original%20Manuscript.pdf |journal=Ethnic and Racial Studies |volume=41 |issue=14 |pages=1–19 |doi=10.1080/01419870.2017.1392028 |s2cid=148720825}}</ref> and the United States.<ref>[[Neil Smith (geographer)|Neil Smith]], ''American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization'', (Berkeley & Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 2003), pp. 27–28.</ref>