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The Iraqi Republic under Abd al-Karim Qasim held an irredentist claim to Khuzestan. [99] It also held irredentist claims to Kuwait. [100] Saddam Hussein's government sought to annex several territories. In the Iran–Iraq War, Ba'athist Iraq claimed it had the right to hold sovereignty to the east bank of the Shatt al-Arab river held by Iran. [97]
A closely related explanation argues that national identities based primarily on ethnicity, culture, and history increase irredentist tendencies. Another approach is to explain irredentism as an attempt to increase power and wealth. In this regard, it is argued that irredentist claims are more likely if the neighboring territory is relatively rich.
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In international relations, it also leads to policies and movements for irredentism to claim a common nation based upon ethnicity, [citation needed] or for the establishment of an ethnocratic (mono-ethnocratic or poly-ethnocratic) political structure in which the state apparatus is controlled by a politically and militarily dominant ethnic ...
The German Nazi Party supported German irredentist claims to Austria, Alsace-Lorraine, the region of Sudetenland, and the territory known since 1919 as the Polish Corridor.
These groups desired German support for their own irredentist and imperialist claims (see Rexism and National Socialist Movement in the Dutch East Indies), hoping to retain the self-determination of associated states.
Fritz Fischer, a Continentalist historian who has done extensive work on German history, claims in his book From Kaiserreich to Third Reich: Elements of Continuity in German History, 1871-1945 [7] that foreign policy was just a continuous trend from Otto von Bismarck's imperialistic policies; that Hitler wanted an empire to protect German ...