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

Boxing Pandora : rethinking borders, states, and secession in a democratic world / Timothy William Waters.

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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Main Author: Waters, Timothy William, 1966- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Series:Yale scholarship online.
Subjects:
Boundaries.
Secession.
Democracy.
Separatist movements.
boundaries.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
Boundaries
Democracy
Secession
Separatist movements
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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