Definition of "adventurism" in English

noun

1. (politics) Political strategy focusing on individual actions such as assassinating political enemies.

2. The behavior of an adventurer; risk-taking.

3. (politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs.

   • 1993, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom, Nairobi: EAEP, Part I, Chapter 2, p. 22, Even where they were aware of the devastating effects of imperialism on the subject peoples, as in Conrad’s description of the dying victims of colonial adventurism in Heart of Darkness, they could not free themselves from the Eurocentric basis of their vision.