Hence irredentism’s political usefulness to dictators. The second challenge is the temptation of appeasement. Territorial claims are deceptively finite and thus deceptively negotiable.

A service member of pro-Russian troops in a uniform without insignia in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on March 1. (Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters) Russia’s efforts to redraw the map by ...

Although the term “irredentism,” a territorial claim based on a national, ethnic, or historical basis, did not exist as a Greek or Latin word in antiquity, it appears relevant retrospectively.

Neither revanchism nor irredentism has attracted the incisive philosophical scrutiny one might expect this past half year despite endless media attention to Putin’s seizure of Crimea and brutal ...

Irredentism has been the driving force behind most wars since the nation-state’s emergence in the 19 th Century. It was the main reason Italy joined the Entente in WW1 (the Italia irredenta).

President Donald Trump and his supporters applaud his legacy as the first president since Jimmy Carter not to embroil U.S. forces in a new foreign conflict. Certainly, after almost two decades in ...

Irredentism surfaced in the mid-1970s when Morocco invaded Western Sahara, and Indonesia invaded East Timor. In the post-Cold War era, the Russian Federation threatened the principle of the ...

Without the irredentism, what is left is the conflict’s secessionist aspect, foregrounding in new ways the issue of majority-minority relations within the same state – namely, the future relationship ...

Irredentism, where a country lays claim to land that it feels once belonged to it, is the most prevalent, and is proving to be the “go to” word to describe Russian justification. This word has ...

Abraham D. Sofaer claims that Israel's "legitimate concerns" about surrendering the Golan Heights to Syria do not justify Israel retaining that strategic territory in perpetuity ("Solution and ...