Territorial Revanchism in the Multipolar World
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Geopolitical, Territories, Territorial Revanchism, South China, International SystemAbstract
The study postulates how Territorial Revanchism will affect the Great Powers’ conduct—Russian and Chinese territorial pivot in their backyard to gain control over the territories they claimed to be their historic part, while persuading other middle powers—Iran and Turkey, to follow suit, pursuing aggressive territorial revanchist policies in their backyard. As their current strategic approaches are evident how Russia and China are gradually bent on regaining their control in Ukraine and South China Sea respectively, presenting them two principles territorial revanchist Great Powers in this age of multipolarity. As far as the middle and regional powers—Turkey and Iran, are concerned to pursue their territorial revanchist ambitions, they are not powerful enough to shape the geopolitics in their favour. Instead, they are trying to challenge it purposefully to further their own interests. Given the rise of proxies in the battle zone and their utilization by some revanchist powers, this tendency may foster anarchy and chaos in the global politics. How Territorial Revanchism has challenged the existing alliance politics, ushering an era of multipolarity in the international system, is another concept to be explored in this study.
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