Territorial Integrity in a Globalizing World: International Law and States’ Quest for Survival

407 Pages·2012·2.606 MB·English

by  Abdelhamid El Ouali (auth.)

Territorial Integrity in a Globalizing World
.
Abdelhamid El Ouali
Territorial Integrity
in a Globalizing World
International Law and States’ Quest
for Survival
Prof.AbdelhamidElOuali
UniversityHassanII
FacultyofLaw
DepartmentofPoliticalSciences
Routed’Eljadida9
20190Casablanca
Morocco
[email protected]
ISBN978-3-642-22868-1 e-ISBN978-3-642-22869-8
DOI10.1007/978-3-642-22869-8
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For Soumaya,
Mehdi,
Sara and
Nacer
.
“All societies face the problem of
how to survive in the face of
uncertainty, the never-ending
challenges, dilemmas and crises”
Douglass C. North, John Joseph
Wallis and Barry R.Weingast
“Violence and Social Orders.
A Conceptual Framework for
Interpreting Recorded Human
History”, Cambridge University
Press, 2009,133
.
Contents
PartI RethinkingTerritorialIntegrity
1 TheState’sSovereignRighttoExistence ................................ 5
1.1 TheNeedforaNewApproachtoTerritorialIntegrity ................ 5
1.1.1 TheDe-ReificationoftheLegalApproach
ofTerritorialIntegrity ............................................ 5
1.1.2 TheProductionofTerritorialIntegrity ......................... 11
1.2 TheInstitutionalizationofTerritoriality .............................. 15
1.2.1 TheState’sRighttoSovereignty ............................... 16
1.2.2 TheState’sRighttoSurvival ................................... 23
1.2.3 TheRightofPeopletoSovereignty:TheEmergence
ofSelf-Determination ........................................... 33
1.3 Conclusion:DefiningTerritorialIntegrity ............................ 42
References ................................................................. 44
2 TheState’sAbilitytoEnsureItsOwnSurvival ........................ 49
2.1 TheStates’DriveTowardsDisintegration ............................ 51
2.1.1 TheConcomitantandCorrelativeBirthofStates
andEthnicHeterogeneity ....................................... 52
2.1.2 TheDeepeningofEthnicHeterogeneity ....................... 61
2.2 TheFlexibilityofTerritorialityAcrossHistory:
HowtoMakeStatesSurvive .......................................... 68
2.2.1 ThePremodernState:InventingTerritorialAutonomy ........ 69
2.2.2 TheModernState:MakingEffectiveItsTerritoriality ........ 78
2.2.3 ThePostmodernState:GoingBacktoTerritorialAutonomy
inOrdertoAddresstheCrisisofTerritoriality
ProducedbyGlobalization ..................................... 92
References ................................................................ 102
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