Irredentism (from Italian irredento, "unredeemed") is any position of a state advocating annexation...
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Irredentism (from Italian irredento, "unredeemed") is any position of a state advocating annexation of territories administered by another state on the grounds of common ethnicity or prior historical possession, actual or alleged.
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Irredentism (from Italian irredento, "unredeemed") is any position of a state advocating annexation of territories administered by another state on the grounds
of common ethnicity or prior historical possession, actual or alleged.
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2014 pro-democracy in Kiev
Vladimir Putin
Russia took Crimea
The battle for eastern Ukraine
Mysterious convoy
Analyze European map over last 400 years. What do you notice overall, and particularly about
Crimea? Why would Russia want Crimea?
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Devolution: the process whereby regions within a state demand and
gain strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the
central government.
Former USSR, esp. Caucasus
Chechnya
c. 2002
Grozny during
Breslan school
300 children killed
What is source of conflict in Chechnya? See next slide:
The new Grozny
Why no significant devolutionary pressure in Switzerland?
Swiss cantons have much autonomy.
Chechnya now ‘stable’ after 30,000 to 50,000 Chechens and 5,000
Russian troops killed.
What is source of Russian desire for Ukraine?
