Good Fences, Bad Neighbors : Border Fixity and International Conflict.
Border fixity - the proscription of foreign conquest and the annexation of homeland territory - has, since World War II, become a powerful norm in world politics. This development has been said to increase stability and peace in international relations. Yet, in a world in which it is unacceptable to...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Theory and Practice of Borders; 2. Which Wars Make the State and Which States Make War; 3. Preconditions to State Building: Making the Case for Comparison; 4. State Building and State Weakness before Border Fixity: Brandenburg-Prussia, Argentina, and Poland-Lithuania; 5. State Building and State Failure in a Fixed-Borders World: Lebanon, Congo, and Israel; 6. State Weakness and International Conflict in a Fixed-Borders World; 7. Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.