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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511506403321

Autore

Ambrosio Thomas <1971->

Titolo

Irredentism : ethnic conflict and international politics / / Thomas Ambrosio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2001

ISBN

9786610315956

9781280315954

1280315954

9780313073427

0313073422

9780313047114

0313047111

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

320.54/094/09049

320.5409409049

Soggetti

Ethnic relations - Political aspects

International relations and culture

Irredentism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Nations, States, and the Post-Cold War World; 2 Explaining Irredentist Outcomes; 3 International Reaction to Irredentism in Yugoslavia; 4 The Limits of Irredentism in the Former Yugoslavia; 5 Western Integration and Hungarian Irredentism; 6 Armenia's Permissive International Environment; 7 Conclusions and Future Avenues of Research; Appendix A: The Exclusion of Russia; Appendix B: Media Coverage of the Yugoslav Crisis; Appendix C: Yugoslavia and Nagorno-Karabakh in the Media; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The idea of national unification has long been a powerful mobilizing force for nationalist thinkers and ethnic entrepreneurs since the rise of nationalist ideology in the late 1700s. This phenomenon came to be known as irredentism. During the Cold War, irredentist projects were



largely subordinated to the ideological struggle between East and West. After the Cold War, however, the international system has witnessed a proliferation of such conflicts throughout Europe and Asia.||Ambrosio integrates both domestic and international factors to explain both the initiation and settlement of irredenti