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Borders, Legal Spaces and Territories in Contemporary International Law

Within and Beyond

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Editors:
  1. Tommaso Natoli

    1. University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

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  2. Alice Riccardi

    1. Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy

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  • Discusses cutting-edge, highly relevant issues
  • Provides an original and inter-sectoral approach to borders in the contemporary legal landscape
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Borders and International Law: Setting the Stage

    • Alice Riccardi, Tommaso Natoli
    Pages 1-20

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 263-266
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About this book

This book examines the challenges posed to contemporary international law by the shifting role of the border, which has recently re-emerged as a central issue in international relations. It posits that borders do not merely correspond to States’ boundaries: indeed, while remaining a fundamental tool for asserting States’ power, they are in fact a collection of constantly changing spatial limits. Consequently, the book approaches borders as context-specific limits and revisits notions traditionally linked to them (jurisdiction, sovereignty, responsibility, individual rights), while also adopting the innovative approach of viewing borders as phenomena of both closedness and openness. Accordingly, the first part of the book addresses what happens “within” borders, investigating the root causes of the emergence of spatial limits and re-assessing apparent extra-territorial assertions of State power. In turn, the second part not only explores typical borderless spaces, but also more generally considers the exercise of States’ and international organisations’ powers and prerogatives across or “beyond” borders.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    Tommaso Natoli

  • Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy

    Alice Riccardi

About the editors

Tommaso Natoli, MSCA-CAROLINE Research Fellow, UCC, Cork, Ireland


Alice Riccardi, Assistant Professor of International Law, University “Roma Tre”, Rome, Italy


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