Territorial Designs and International Politics: Inside-out and Outside-in [Paperback]

Introduction 1. Territorial Designs and International Politics: The Diverging Constitution of Space and Boundaries. Boaz Atzili and Burak Kadercan Theorizing Territorial Designs 2. Territory as an Institution: Spatial Ideas, Practices, and Technologies Jordan Branch 3. Methodological Challenges in the Study of Stateless Nationalist Territorial Claims Harris Mylonas and Nadav Shelef 4. Admission to the Sovereignty Club: The Past, Present, and Future of the International Recognition Regime Ryan Griffith Territorial Design Across Time and Space 5. Territorial Design and Grand Strategy in the Ottoman Empire Burak Kadercan 6. The Territory of Colonialism Gerry Kearns 7. Drone Strikes, Ephemeral Sovereignty, and Changing Conceptions of Territory Katherine H. Kindervater 8. Between Land and Sea: Spaces and Conflict Intensity Ehud Eiran

Territory is back with a vengeance. Although territorial politics never really went away, it was often perceived that way in public discussion and among scholars. The territorial conflicts of the last several years, however, have raised new academic and policy questions, revived old debates that were nearly forgotten, and forced us to rethink many of our common conceptions. Social scientists broadly agree that territory, as well as the boundaries that confine it and group identity that relates to it, are socially constructed rather than natural or primordial. But how and through which mechanisms is the meaning of territory constructed? By whom? For which purposes and by what tools? Which forces influence such territorial designs? How do different territorial designs affect state behavior in particular, and the dynamics of international politics in general? This blS2