Shifting grounds : the social origins of territorial conflict / Burak Kadercan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kadercan, Burak, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Territory, National.

Boundaries.

War--Causes.

War.

Geopolitics.

Nationalism.

Political geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

'Shifting Grounds' brings together the existing social constructivist research in international relations (IR) and political geography, and examines the interactive relationship between territory and war from conceptual, theoretical, and historical perspectives. The central premise is the following: territory is what states and societies make of it. Put differently, states and societies have adhered to different forms of territoriality across time and space, and territory as well as territorial control meant different things in different time periods and regions.

Contents:

Introduction : a tale of two countries

Territory, war, and the "territorial trap"

Territorial orders and war

Rigid borders, spasmodic wars : mosaic and monolithic territorial orders

Fluid frontiers and forever war I : amorphous territorial orders

Fluid frontiers and forever war II : virulent territorial orders

Systemic wars and the evolution of the territorial order(s)

Conclusion : territory and territoriality in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 1, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Kadercan, Burak Shifting Grounds

ISBN:

0-19-768672-9

0-19-768670-2