North Atlanticist

English

Etymology

North Atlantic +‎ -ist

Noun

North Atlanticist (plural North Atlanticists)

1. (rare, nonstandard) A denizen or dweller of the North Atlantic
2. (rare, nonstandard) An inhabitant of a nation that borders the North Atlantic
3. One whose political views support the North Atlantic countries as a power base, especially a supporter of NATO.
   • 1986, Worldwide Report: Arms control, page 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?

   • 1986, Res publica - Volume 27, page 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.

   • 1991, Roberto Giorgio Rabel, Europe Without Walls, page 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     That Mrs Thatcher, friend of Ronald Reagan and North Atlanticist, has been replaced by John Major and a more committedly European cabinet, does not resolve the issue.

   • 2003, Michael A. Hennessy, B. J. C. McKercher, War in the Twentieth Century: Reflections at Century's End, page 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

North Atlanticist (comparative more North Atlanticist, superlative most North Atlanticist)

1. (rare, nonstandard) Of, or pertaining to the North Atlantic
   • 1999, Manochehr Dorraj, Middle East at the Crossroads, page 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.

   • 2006, Nira Yuval-Davis, Kalpana Kannabiran, The Situated Politics of Belonging, page 87:

     Lewis (1999) is specifically addressing the American-African diaspora in a North Atlanticist frame .

   • 2007, Sandhya Shukla, Heidi Tinsman, Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame, page 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.

   • 2012, Zoran Vojinovic, Michael B. Abbott, Flood Risk and Social Justice, page 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.