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The emergence of nationalist movements has reintroduced the polemic regarding the rationale for these crusades, and their potential to affect the stability of the states and regions inside whose boundaries they materialize. The post 1990 quasiunipolar1 system structure, increasingly becoming hegemonic in the late 1990s, the formation of regional political and economic spheres of influence, and attempts to create a single, comprehensive culture adopted by all and unique to none have been powerful indicators that globalization and interdependence would redefine the concept of nation. A major factor overlooked in this equation, ethnicity, has become an impediment for this international metamorphosis. Nationalist movements, emerging in such a global reality, with the ability to threaten domestic and regional equilibria have attested to the rigor and seriousness of these campaigns and reiterated that the role of ethnicity ought not be trivialized or dismissed. Within the realm of nationalist movements, irredentism and secession are considered to be the most serious national objectives. Unlike movements that aim to improve a national minority’s status internally within the confines of a state (reforms, autonomy), irredentist and secessionist movements are more hostile and intend to alter the territorial unity of the state from which they claim territory or from which they plan to secede.
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Papazian, L. (2001). A People’s Will: Armenian Irredentism over Nagorno Karabagh. In: Chorbajian, L. (eds) The Making of Nagorno-Karabagh. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230508965_2
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