Who actually controls the Northwest Passage? Who owns the trillions of dollars of oil and gas beneath the Arctic Ocean? Which territorial claims will prevail, those of the U.S., Russia, Canada or the Nordic nations, and why? And, in an age of rapid climate change, how do we prot…
"From the Sonora to the Arctic, North America's indigenous peoples have been dispossessed of nearly all their original territory, with the residue held under a colonial "trust" authority by the U.S. and Canada. Ironically, the presumably useless fragments of geography set aside …
The rebalance under the Obama administration : transformational leadership and selective engagement / Tanguy Struye de Swielande -- "The dialogue of East and West" : Joseph Needham revisited / Bart Dessein -- Sovereignty and identity : Taiwan's claims in the South China Sea / Yi…
While territorial disputes have been an enduring feature of international politics for centuries, systematic knowledge about the origins, evolution, and termination of such disputes is limited. In Standing Your Ground: Territorial Disputes and International Conflict, Paul Huth, …
"This timely contribution to current debates about nationalism explains the complex historical reasons behind often violent modern conflicts around issues of land, culture, religion, and politics. Tracing the development of individual nations over many centuries, it offers fasci…
This book argues that power struggles between internal and diasporic elites play a central role in the development of political agendas that have the potential to shift national borders. The author uses Albania as the primary case study, examining how the understanding of the Al…
In 'Mediterranean paradiplomacies: The dynamics of diplomatic reterritorialization', Manuel Duran presents a new view on the phenomenon of paradiplomacy by analyzing the diplomatic activities of a number of Mediterranean substate entities as a site of political territorializatio…