Boxing Pandora: Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World - Couverture rigide

Waters, Timothy William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300235895 ISBN 13 : 9780300235890

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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 supposed to encourage stability, promote pluralism, and discourage nationalism and intolerance. But do they? What if fixed borders create more problems than they solve, and what if permitting people to change borders would create more stability and produce more just societies? Legal scholar Timothy Waters examines this possibility, showing how we arrived at a system of rigidly bordered states and how the real danger to peace is not the desire of people to form new states but the capacity of existing states to resist that desire, even with violence. He proposes a practical, democratically legitimate alternative: a right of secession. With crises ongoing in the United Kingdom, Spain, Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, India, and many other regions, this reassessment of the foundations of our global order is more relevant than ever.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Timothy William Waters is professor of law and associate director of the Center for Constitutional Democracy at Indiana University. Author of numerous scholarly articles and op-eds on international law and politics, he also edited The Milosevic Trial: An Autopsy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300235895
• ISBN 13: 9780300235890
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
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