DEFINING IRREDENTISM AS A SECURITY PHENOMENON

Zoran Malbašić; Milovan Trbojevic

doi:10.5937/nabepo25-25836

Zoran Malbašić The National Security Academy, Belgrade
Milovan Trbojevic

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/nabepo25-25836

Keywords: Irredentism, ethnic conflict, political violence, international relations.

Abstract

Irredentism as an inevitable element of expansionistic strategy still remains a fascinating concept and a subject of research in political science and security intelligence to boot. The subject of this paper is the origin of irredentism as a security phenomenon, the analyses of its numerous transformations and the resilience of this phenomenon in all country legal systems. The specific attention has been appointed to typology of irredentism alongside the goal of identifying the irredentist strategies throughout history until today, accompanied by an aspiration to identify the current potentially irredentist countries. Expansionistic doctrine cannot be observed as an internal affair of a country, but it is a generator of international crises, potentially growing into regional and further into global conflict. Analysing numerous theoretical views in this field, the authors’ intention has been to verify the structural characteristics of irredentism together with the initial partakers of conflicts alongside irredentist potential.

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