From Russia’s annexation of Crimea to China’s ‘nine-dash line’
in the South China Sea, it is clear that territory is as important in
international politics now as it has ever been. Yet too few
contemporary foreign policy makers, journalists, and scholars are able
to speak coherently about territorial issues. Space Is Power: The
Seven Rules of Territory challenges the intellectual conceits that
human territoriality is merely a social construct, that territorial
sovereignty is atavistic, that territorial annexation is always
irrational, and that territorial disputes are provoked by foreign
policy makers who seek to divert public attention from more important
issues. Space Is Power argues that territoriality is too basic to
human nature to be denied and territorial sovereignty is too important
to the survival of the modern state to be ignored. The truths about
territory are captured in seven rules, some of which are intuitive
while others contradict conventional wisdom. Rather than anticipating
the transcendence of the territorial states, this book argues that the
unmistakable direction of international politics is toward
encompassing ever more physical space as the territory of states.
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ISBN
9781498512909
Publisert
2016
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Lexington Books
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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