irredentismn.
/ɪrɪˈdɛntɪz(ə)m/ The policy or programme of the Irredentists. Also in extended use: any policy of seeking the recovery and reunion to one country of a region or regions for the time being subject to another country.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [noun] > other specific policies or advocacy of
laissez-faireism1848
localism1848
laissez-faire1873
irredentism1883
dissolutionism1894
expansionism1900
bilingualism1901
non-alignment1908
agriculturism1919
cultural imperialism1921
isolationism1922
unilateralism1926
autarky1934
elitism1934
pronatalism1938
neo-isolationism1951
non-alignedness1962
1883 Standard 30 Apr. 5/5 Irredentism is less powerful than the need felt by all the Central European States for mutual peace and safety.
1889 Times 25 Apr. 5/3 An estrangement between Austria and Italy would lead to a very swift revival of irredentism in the Italian kingdom.
1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 314/1 Up to the World War there was actually no articulate irredentism among the Austrian Poles.
1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 May 319/1 Never was ‘irredentism’ so rampant as it is today; and so far as Germans and Magyars are concerned there does not seem much prospect of their reshaping their minds.
1961 Listener 21 Dec. 1057/1 The young African states are..learning that they are no more immune than the wicked old nations from the evils of frontier disputes, irredentism, and even ideological differences.
1973 Listener 20 Dec. 845/3 The seeds of Japanese irredentism, already latent, will begin to sprout.
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n.1883