Boxing Pandora : rethinking borders, states, and secession in a democratic world /

A timely and provocative challenge to the foundations of our global order: why should national borders be unchangeable? The inviolability of national borders is an unquestioned pillar of the post-World War II international order. Fixed borders are believed to encourage stability, promote pluralism,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Waters, Timothy William, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press [2020]
Colección:Yale scholarship online.
Acceso en línea:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvt1sg72
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The current rule. The failure of a flourishing idea : the decadence of self-determination
  • The map of our world : the limits of the classical system
  • The measure of nations : testing the assumptions behind the classical rule
  • The new rule. A new right to secession
  • People, terriroty, plebiscite : the main features--objections and answers
  • Broader implications : features and effects of the new rule
  • The hardest part : creating a right of secession.