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Pieter Labuschagne - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Uti Possidetis? versus self-determination : Orania and an independent "volkstaat"
Journal of Contemporary History, 2008Co-Authors: Pieter LabuschagneAbstract:The rights of minority groups to self-determination and secession has become one of the most controversial norms of international law, especially since the "completion" of the decolonization wave which swept over the various continents, countries and islands of the globe. Uti possedetis or the principle of Territorial Integrity in international law demands that caution should be exercized not to disrupt the Territorial Integrity of a state (Knop 2002:171). Self-determination is therefore handled with caution, because it is a gravitational pull that potentially fragments national states and creates instability in the international order.
Stuart Elden - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Territorial Integrity of Iraq, 2003-2007 : invocation, violation, viability.
Geoforum, 2009Co-Authors: Stuart Elden, Alison J. WilliamsAbstract:This paper considers the ways in which Iraq’s Territorial Integrity has been invoked by the international community, how it was violated by the US-led coalition between 2003 and 2007, and how these acts have called into question the future viability of the Iraqi state. The paper contends that Iraq provides an instructive illustration of how the international legal term of Territorial Integrity is being pulled apart; where the spatial extent of the state must be preserved at all costs, yet the sovereignty of the state is rendered entirely contingent. Using interviews with key actors within the British context and documentary analysis, this paper examines the political situation in Iraq and the content of the new Iraqi constitution, the rise of factionalism within Iraq, and the report of the Iraq Study Group. In doing so it considers the impact of key decisions concerning Iraq’s sovereignty upon the future viability of the state.
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Blair, Neo-Conservatism and The War on Territorial Integrity
International Politics, 2007Co-Authors: Stuart EldenAbstract:This essay uses the war on Iraq and in particular the legal advice of the British Attorney General to explore two tensions. The first is between Blair's foreign policy with its ‘ethical dimension’ and call for humanitarian intervention by the international community and the project of the neo-conservatives in the US. The second is in the notion of Territorial Integrity, which means both the idea of Territorial preservation and that within this territory a state is sovereign. The war on Iraq, which violated Territorial sovereignty, was fought against a backdrop of preserving the existing Territorial settlement, especially regarding the Kurds. While Blair and the neo-conservatives share an argument against Territorial sovereignty as an unconditioned absolute, and hold a belief in the need for Territorial stability, their positions differ on the mechanisms needed. Blair strove for an internationalist position; the neo-conservatives argue for US exceptionalism. Ultimately though, faced with a decision, Blair joined the US in violating a sovereign state's Territorial Integrity without international support.
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contingent sovereignty Territorial Integrity and the sanctity of borders
SAIS Review, 2006Co-Authors: Stuart EldenAbstract:��� This article looks at emergent challenges to the sanctity of international borders. It first provides a brief discussion of international law on the issues of uti possidetis and Territorial Integrity. It then examines challenges to these ideas that have emerged in recent years through the notion of contingent sovereignty and its relation to earlier calls for humanitarian intervention and current discussions around reform of the United Nations. In contrast the other side of the coin is the notion of earned sovereignty, where new states can enjoy transitional paths to independence or secession. The former has enjoyed much more international support, but both ways of rethinking the notion of sovereignty have important Territorial implications. The article concludes by raising questions about this relation and the question of borders more generally.
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Territorial Integrity and the war on terror
Environment and Planning A, 2005Co-Authors: Stuart EldenAbstract:This paper examines the use of the term ‘Territorial Integrity’, a term with two interlinked and usually compatible meanings. The first is that states should not seek to promote border changes or s...
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Territorial Integrity and the War on Terror
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2005Co-Authors: Stuart EldenAbstract:This paper examines the use of the term ‘Territorial Integrity’, a term with two interlinked and usually compatible meanings. The first is that states should not seek to promote border changes or secessionist movements within other states, or attempt to seize territory by force. The second meaning is the standard idea that within its own borders, within its territory, a state is sovereign. The second of these two meanings has come under increased pressure in recent years, in part in relation to international intervention for ‘humanitarian’ reasons, and even more so since September 11 2001. And yet the other meaning is being stressed even more explicitly, often at the same time and in the same places that the second meaning is being challenged. This paper considers various historical and contemporary examples, and suggests that the two meanings of Territorial Integrity are increasingly in tension.
Abdelhamid El Ouali - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Territorial Integrity in a globalizing world international law and states quest for survival
2012Co-Authors: Abdelhamid El OualiAbstract:Introduction.- Part One: Foundations of Territorial Integrity: Chapter 1. The State's Sovereign Right of Existence.- Chapter 2. State's Ability to Ensure its own Survival.- Part Two: The Protection of Territorial Integrity Against External Threat: Chapter 3. The Ambiguous Protection of State Territory.- Chapter 4. The Weakening of State's Territorial Sovereignty.- Part Three: The Protection of Territorial Integrity Against Internal Threat: Chapter 5. Self-determination Classical Paradigm: Disintegrating Peripheral States from Within.- Chapter 6. Self-determination Postmodern Paradigm: Preventing States' Disintegration.- Conclusion.
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the state s sovereign right to existence
2012Co-Authors: Abdelhamid El OualiAbstract:Modern International Law doctrine has a reified approach to Territorial Integrity. This has led to the perception that Territorial Integrity is the completeness/unity of state territory. Such an approach has proven to be irrelevant in understanding the real nature, content and legal consequences of Territorial Integrity. Amazingly International legal and political scholars as well as political geography specialists have never enquired about the link between Territorial Integrity and Territoriality. In fact, Territorial Integrity is in essence the elaborated and sophisticated legal expression of Territoriality. It is intimately linked to the state as a legal entity the main objective of which is to ensure its perennial existence within a specific territory whose borders have been established in accordance with International Law. Therefore, a new approach is needed in order to better understand Territorial Integrity, a principle that can be considered as the cornerstone of International Law.
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The State’s Sovereign Right to Existence
Territorial Integrity in a Globalizing World, 2011Co-Authors: Abdelhamid El OualiAbstract:Modern International Law doctrine has a reified approach to Territorial Integrity. This has led to the perception that Territorial Integrity is the completeness/unity of state territory. Such an approach has proven to be irrelevant in understanding the real nature, content and legal consequences of Territorial Integrity. Amazingly International legal and political scholars as well as political geography specialists have never enquired about the link between Territorial Integrity and Territoriality. In fact, Territorial Integrity is in essence the elaborated and sophisticated legal expression of Territoriality. It is intimately linked to the state as a legal entity the main objective of which is to ensure its perennial existence within a specific territory whose borders have been established in accordance with International Law. Therefore, a new approach is needed in order to better understand Territorial Integrity, a principle that can be considered as the cornerstone of International Law.
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The Ambiguous Protection of State Territory
Territorial Integrity in a Globalizing World, 2011Co-Authors: Abdelhamid El OualiAbstract:As we have seen above, the institutionalization of Territoriality Integrity was made possible by the emergence of central principles such as sovereignty, the prohibition of the use of force, self-defense, state of necessity, etc. The rationale behind the emergence of these principles was to ensure the protection of Territorial Integrity. International Law has also given rise to other principles the objective of which is to preserve state’s Territorial Integrity. This chapter will focus mainly on the principles that are directly related to the preservation of the Integrity of state’s territory.
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Territorial Integrity rethinking the Territorial sovereign right of the existence of the states
Geopolitics, 2006Co-Authors: Abdelhamid El OualiAbstract:Legal contemporary doctrine has a reified approach to the state. This has led to the perception that Territorial Integrity is the completeness/unity of the state territory. Amazingly international relations and political geography scholars have not enquired about the link between Territoriality and Territorial Integrity. In essence the principle of Territorial Integrity is the elaborated and sophisticated legal expression of Territoriality. It is intimately linked to the state as a legal entity the main objective of which is to ensure its perennial existence within a specific territory whose borders have been established in accordance with international law. I think that the life of an institution implies that we are able to criticize, to transform, to open the institution to its own future. So the law as such can be deconstructed and has to be deconstructed. That is the condition of historicity, revolution, morals, ethics, and progress. (J. Derrida)
Laura Kirvelytė - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Dilemma of Azerbaijan’s Security Strategy: Energy Policy or Territorial Integrity?
Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review, 2012Co-Authors: Laura KirvelytėAbstract:Azerbaijan, the strongest state of the South Caucasus, at the same time is one of the most vulnerable countries in the region. On the one hand, the country has faced the problem of Territorial Integrity for more than two decades already because of frozen conflict with Armenia over Nagorno Karabakh. On the other hand, Azerbaijan’s importance in European energy policy is constantly growing. If Azerbaijan would start a war with Armenia in order to restore its control over Nagorno Karabakh, the ambitious energy policy aiming to turn Azerbaijan into important oil and gas transportation link between East and West that has been developed for a decade, would end without a success. Thus at the same time the problem that Azerbaijan does not control part of its territory is a major obstacle for sustainable development of the country and for Azerbaijan’s international cooperation. In this context, Azerbaijan faces a dilemma – to take up measures of hard security for restoring its Territorial Integrity, what has been frequently stated by high politicians, or to rely on the measures of soft security, focusing on the development of EU-orientated energy policy that has a positive impact on Azerbaijan‘s internationals prestige. Moreover, maybe a „third way“, enabling Azerbaijan to reach both abovementioned goals at the same time, exists? In this research paper, using the conceptions of relational and structural powers, the factors of Azerbaijan‘s security balance are analysed and suggestions on the stabilisation of the country‘s security situation are provided.
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the dilemma of azerbaijan s security strategy energy policy or Territorial Integrity
Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review, 2012Co-Authors: Laura KirvelytėAbstract:Azerbaijan, the strongest state of the South Caucasus, at the same time is one of the most vulnerable countries in the region. On the one hand, the country has faced the problem of Territorial Integrity for more than two decades already because of frozen conflict with Armenia over Nagorno Karabakh. On the other hand, Azerbaijan’s importance in European energy policy is constantly growing. If Azerbaijan would start a war with Armenia in order to restore its control over Nagorno Karabakh, the ambitious energy policy aiming to turn Azerbaijan into important oil and gas transportation link between East and West that has been developed for a decade, would end without a success. Thus at the same time the problem that Azerbaijan does not control part of its territory is a major obstacle for sustainable development of the country and for Azerbaijan’s international cooperation. In this context, Azerbaijan faces a dilemma – to take up measures of hard security for restoring its Territorial Integrity, what has been frequently stated by high politicians, or to rely on the measures of soft security, focusing on the development of EU-orientated energy policy that has a positive impact on Azerbaijan‘s internationals prestige. Moreover, maybe a „third way“, enabling Azerbaijan to reach both abovementioned goals at the same time, exists? In this research paper, using the conceptions of relational and structural powers, the factors of Azerbaijan‘s security balance are analysed and suggestions on the stabilisation of the country‘s security situation are provided.
Jbruce Jacobs - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Why Taiwan?: Geostrategic Rationales for China's Territorial Integrity [Book Review]
China Journal, 2008Co-Authors: Jbruce JacobsAbstract:Review(s) of: Why Taiwan? Geostrategic Rationales for China's Territorial Integrity, by Alan M. Wachman, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2007, xviii + 253 pp. US$65.00 (Hardcover), US$24.95 (Paperback).
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Why Taiwan? Geostrategic Rationales for China's Territorial Integrity
China Journal, 2008Co-Authors: Jbruce JacobsAbstract:Why Taiwan? Geostrategic Rationales for China's Territorial Integrity, by Alan M. Wachman. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2007. xviii + 253 pp. US$65.00 (hardcover), US$24.95 (paperback). Alan Wachman has written an important and stimulating book. He asks why Taiwan is such an important question to China's leaders today. In Wachman's own words, "Taiwan is not so much the subject of this work as an object of consideration, where China is the subject and its attitude toward Taiwan the principal theme" (p. 179, n. 7). The book splits into two very separate parts. First, Wachman considers the historical case for Taiwan being a part of China. Having trawled through much of the same historical material, I congratulate Professor Wachman especially for his thorough research. Wachman concludes that historically Taiwan was not part of China. In addition, in two detailed chapters looking at statements of both Kuomintang and Chinese Communist leaders, Wachman concludes that leaders of both parties in numerous statements over the years did not consider Taiwan a part of China until around 1942. Wachman's historical case would be even stronger if he did not make a few historical errors. Most importantly, he argues: "The term China, here, is shorthand for the polities ruled by the Ming, the Qing, and the Republican governments" (p. 173, n. 88, original emphasis). Yet, as Wachman notes in his text, China was a colony of the Manchu Qing Empire. This is an important point. Furthermore, even within this colonial structure, the Qing differentiated between China and Taiwan. So, during the Qing, Taiwan belonged (at least in part) to the Qing, but not to China which itself was a colony of the Qing. The failure to make the distinction between the Qing and China leads to sloppy thinking such as "Surely, China had been forcibly deprived of the island" after 1894-95 (p. 78). When the Dutch arrived in Taiwan in 1624 to begin their colonial rule, the number of Chinese living temporarily on Taiwan was very few and no permanent Chinese community existed on the island. James W. Davidson's important book, The Island of Formosa (1903), which Wachman cites (pp. 181-82, n. 45), does state that 25,000 Chinese lived on the island, but Davidson provides no sources for this statement. Both John Wills ("The Seventeenth-Century Transformation", in Taiwan: A New History, edited by Murray A. Rubenstein [Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1999], p. 87) and Macabe Keliher (Out of China, p. 96), in works that Wachman also cites, suggest that the Dutch found 1000-1500 Chinese on Taiwan when they arrived. When Zheng Chenggong arrived in Taiwan in 1662, the last Ming pretender had already died. …
