INCIDENTS AND LOW-INTENSITY CONFLICT AS A REFLECTION OF THE FORMER EUROPEAN POWERS

Radaković Milovan (Naučni saradnik, IMPP, Beograd), mradakovic@diplomacy. bg.ac.rs

Incidents, as well as low-intensity conflicts, are often only indicators that two or more states may enter into a wider conflict. Beyond these specific incidents, there is usually a much larger problem between two or more states and the specific incident is only an indicator of a larger conflict. The reasons for the outbreak of small-scale conflicts or incidents may be diverting public attention from a problem within the country to a specific foreign conflict. Such conflicts often represent a shadow of former imperial campaigns of great colonial powers, so the incident is given some measure of \"arrogance\" of a particular state. In the last decades, this so-called \"imperial impulse\" occurred in Spain and the UK. Madrid and London were \"challenged\" and as sovereign countries, they intervened militarily in the respective cases. However, overall ratio and result of such interventions is generally relatively small, considering the military capabilities that are set in motion and disturbance of public opinion that occurs in such situations.

Keywords: United Kingdom, Spain, Morocco, Argentina, Europe, Africa, South America Islands, Incident, Conflict, Perehil, Gilbratar, Falklands