Territorial Integrity: Rethinking the Territorial Sovereign Right of the Existence of the States

Ouali, Abdelhamid El

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“…Drawing on critiques of the`territorial trap' (Agnew, 1994), this literature has analysed the way in which certain powerful ideas of territoriality continue to undergird fundamental assumptions about states and their interaction in the international community. Applying this critique empirically, recent geographical scholarship has revealed how appeals to`territorial integrity' have been invoked, among other sites, in the logic of`humanitarian' interventionism, the violence of militaries in suppressing separatist movements, the creation of (questionably secure)`safe zones' during interstate conflict, or the excesses of the war on terror (Alatout, 2006;Elden, 2005b;Ouali, 2006;Yamashita, 2004).…”

Section: Mattering Territorial Integritymentioning

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Fixing the Border: On the Affective Life of the State in Southern Kyrgyzstan

Reeves

2011

Environ Plan D

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Introductioǹ`M ight it turn out'', asks Michael Taussig in The Nervous System, that``not the Being nor the ideologies of the centre, but the fantasies of the marginated concerning the secret of the centre are what is most politically important to the State idea and hence State fetishism?'' (1992, page 32). This paper draws on ethnographic research from a mountainous region of post-Soviet Central Asian borderland to explore how a particular dimension of that``state idea''öof the state as properly`integral'öcame to matter and be mattered by border villagers at a time of political crisis. (1) Through this analysis I seek to bring the critical interrogation of`territorial integrity' that has emerged in recent geographical scholarship into conversation with an anthropological literature on the state. Two broad claims underlie this approach. The first is the need to bring an ethnographic optic öfocused on what people do as well as what they sayöto discussions of territoriality within political geography. Whilst the tendency to treat state spatiality as a given has rightly been interrogated in recent critical scholarship, less attention has been paid to the ways in which normative ideas of state territoriality circulate in everyday life, animating the claims and actions, fears and fantasies of ordinary peopleöincluding in sometimes violently performative ways. The second claim concerns the eclipse of`territory' from contemporary anthropological writing on politics. Territory has remained undertheorised in political anthropology, I suggest, in part because of a tendency to equate globalisation with deterritorialisation'. Proportionately greater attention has accordingly been dedicated

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Section: Mattering Territorial Integritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Fixing the Border: On the Affective Life of the State in Southern Kyrgyzstan

Reeves

2011

Environ Plan D

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“…It is composed of a dual process, the first of which is the right of a state to act as sovereign within its own borders (known as territorial sovereignty). The second ensures the rights and responsibilities of all states to preserve the inviolability of international boundaries and to maintain the territorial extent of all extant states (known as territorial preservation) (Elden 2005a 2005b 2006; for other interpretations see El Ouali 2006; Zacher 2001). However, actions taken by a number of states have raised questions about the extent to which this concept is being rendered in two with territorial sovereignty being violated at the same time that territorial preservation is being invoked, resulting in the existing territorial extent of states becoming disconnected from their supposedly sovereign rights within these boundaries.…”

Section: The Vertical Dimension Of Sovereigntymentioning

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“…Within analysis of the contradictions inherent within these problematic constructions of state space, the aerial dimension of territorial integrity has been largely overlooked (although see El Ouali 2006; Williams 2007). 1 This paper argues that an understanding of the role of airspace is central to analysis of the invocation and violation of territorial integrity because territory exists within three dimensions.…”

Section: The Vertical Dimension Of Sovereigntymentioning

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A crisis in aerial sovereignty? Considering the implications of recent military violations of national airspace

Williams¹

2010

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The implementation of policies of pre‐emption and securitisation by a number of states has led to an increase in the number of aerial incursions by one state's air force into another state's territory in recent years, often occurring before and, indeed, instead of ground incursions. This paper argues that it is vital that we conceptualise territory as a three‐dimensional volume, rather than simply a flat area, in order to enable an analysis of how these events impact state sovereignty. The central contention of the paper is to extend recent work on territorial integrity and contingent sovereignty into this aerial dimension. A number of brief case studies are provided to illustrate how different incursion practices actively violate territorial integrity or render state sovereignty contingent. The conclusion seeks to answer the question of whether these incidents imply a crisis in aerial sovereignty or whether they confirm the chronic decline of this norm of international law.

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“…This and other instances of state‐sponsored abuses against segments of their domestic populations have driven attempts to detach sovereignty from the state. In this view, sovereignty rests with the people and the state's territorial integrity must only be respected so long as the state protects the basic rights of its people (El Ouali 2006).…”

Section: Borders Globalization and Sovereigntymentioning

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Theorizing Borders in a ‘Borderless World’: Globalization, Territory and Identity

Diener

Hagen

2009

Geography Compass

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Although declarations or predictions of a borderless world have become somewhat ubiquitous over the last twenty years, state borders remain one of the most basic and visible features of the international system. While it is true that a range of issues, like environmental change, migration, or international trade, highlight the growing interaction and interdependence between different places around the world, borders continue to play a central role in shaping, dividing, and uniting the world's societies, economies, and ecosystems. Reflecting their significance for scholars across the social sciences, a growing body of multidisciplinary research has investigated the continuing power of borders in our supposedly borderless world. This article examines some of the main lines of inquiry, research, and theory in this emerging field of border studies.

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Territorial Integrity: Rethinking the Territorial Sovereign Right of the Existence of the States

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Fixing the Border: On the Affective Life of the State in Southern Kyrgyzstan

Fixing the Border: On the Affective Life of the State in Southern Kyrgyzstan

A crisis in aerial sovereignty? Considering the implications of recent military violations of national airspace

Theorizing Borders in a ‘Borderless World’: Globalization, Territory and Identity

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