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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Rethinking Territorial Integrity
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Rethinking territorial integrity
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The Protection of Territorial Integrity Against External Threat
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The protection of territorial integrity against external threat
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Protection of Territorial Integrity Against Internal Threat
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The Protection of territorial integrity against internal threat
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About this book
This book offers a comprehensive, highly informative and interdisciplinary study on territorial integrity and the challenges globalization, self-determination and external interventions present. This study aims at not only to fill an epistemological gap in this regard, but also answer the question of whether International Law is adequately equipped to help states address these challenges. The author argues that the biggest threat that many states are confronted with today is their disintegration rather than their obsolescence, and that International Law has not often been able to prevent that eventuality. In fact, states, when they were not destroyed by war, managed to survive, thanks to the flexibility of territoriality, i.e. their ability to adjust to difficult situations as they arose. It is this understanding of adaptation that urges an increasing number of states today to revive territorial autonomy and restore an original understanding of self-determination in which democracy is a pivotal factor in establishing congruence between the states and their nations. While this move is endorsed by International Law, it is not the case for globalization; for their own sake, proponents of globalization should recognize that the states are irreplaceable as long as they remain the sole providers of protection for their peoples.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Territorial Integrity in a Globalizing World
Book Subtitle: International Law and States’ Quest for Survival
Authors: Abdelhamid El Ouali
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22869-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-22868-1Published: 28 March 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44770-9Published: 16 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-22869-8Published: 26 March 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 392
Topics: Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations, Fundamentals of Law, Political Science