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Early attempts at ISI were stifled by colonial neomercantilist policies of the 1940s and the 1950s that aimed to generate growth by exporting primary products to the detriment of imports. [24]: 205 The promotion of exports to metropoles was the primary goal of the colonial economic system. The metropolitan governments aimed to offset colonial ...
On 8 April 2013, ISI leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi publicly claimed that he had created Jabhat al-Nusra as a Syrian extension of the ISI and announced that he was forcibly merging it with the ISI into one group under his command, forming the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL), also known as "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS).
Writing for The Washington Post, Amanda Bennett cast the debate as less about the meaning of words, but what they convey, contrasting politician's wish to have the group seen in a negative light, with the tradition in journalistic and academic circles to use organisations own preferred names, with explanation if there is a confusion or conflict ...
Maréchal ("Marshal") – Between 1940 and 1944, when Marshal Philippe Pétain was Chief of the French State (Vichy France), the name for his military rank became synonymous with Pétain. Though the country retained the Marseillaise as its national anthem, Maréchal, nous voilà ! was widely seen as the alternative Vichy French anthem.
The 1940s (pronounced "nineteen-forties" and commonly abbreviated as "the '40s" or "the Forties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1940, and ended on December 31, 1949. Most of World War II took place in the first half of the decade, which had a profound effect on most countries and people in Europe , Asia , and elsewhere.
ISI mark, a product certification mark in India Institute for Scientific Information , part of Clarivate Analytics (formerly the Healthcare & Science business of the Thomson Reuters Corporation) Institute for Scientific Interchange , a theoretical scientific research centre based in Turin, Italy
From a French phrase meaning to toss a wooden shoe (a sabot) into the machinery to slow things down. [33] The Saint Refers to Vincent St. John [2] Sallies Salvation Army hotels and industrial workshops Scab A strike breaker [2] Scissorbill A worker who identifies with the boss, or who lacks class consciousness; hobo who thinks he can be President.
ISI's covert support to militant jihadist insurgent groups in Afghanistan, the Pashtun-dominated former Federally Administered Tribal Areas, and Kashmir has earned it a wide reputation as the primary progenitor (at times either intentionally or unintentionally) of many active South Asian jihadist groups.