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  title info:
    title: Territorial Integrity in a Globalizing World
    sub title: International Law and States’ Quest for Survival
  name:
    name part: El Ouali, Abdelhamid.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 392 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Part One: Foundations of Territorial Integrity: Chapter 1. The State's Sovereign Right of Existence -- Chapter 2. State's Ability to Ensure its own Survival -- Part Two: The Protection of Territorial Integrity Against External Threat: Chapter 3. The Ambiguous Protection of State Territory -- Chapter 4. The Weakening of State's Territorial Sovereignty -- Part Three: The Protection of Territorial Integrity Against Internal Threat: Chapter 5. Self-determination Classical Paradigm: Disintegrating Peripheral States from Within -- Chapter 6. Self-determination Postmodern Paradigm: Preventing States' Disintegration -- Conclusion.
  note: by Abdelhamid El Ouali.
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Law
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: International law
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    topic: Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations
  subject:
    topic: Fundamentals of Law
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  classification: K3150
  classification: 341
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783642228698
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22869-8
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    record creation date: 120326
    record change date: 20151204175057.0
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