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On Borders - Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place (Hardcover)
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On Borders - Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place (Hardcover)
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When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where
should they be drawn? Today people think of borders as an island's
shores. Just as beaches delimit a castaway's realm, so borders
define the edges of a territory, occupied by a unified people, to
whom the land legitimately belongs. Hence a territory is legitimate
only if it belongs to a people unified by a civic identity. Sadly,
this Desert Island Model of territorial politics forces us to
choose. If we want territories, then we can either have democratic
legitimacy, or inclusion of different civic identities-but not
both. The resulting politics creates mass xenophobia,
migrant-bashing, hoarding of natural resources, and border walls.
To escape all this, On Borders presents an alternative model.
Drawing on an intellectual tradition concerned with how land and
climate shape institutions, it argues that we should not see
territories as pieces of property owned by identity groups.
Instead, we should see them as watersheds: as interconnected
systems where institutions, people, the biota, and the land
together create overlapping civic duties and relations, what the
book calls place-specific duties. This Watershed Model argues that
borders are justified when they allow us to fulfill those duties;
that border-control rights spring from internationally-agreed
conventions-not from internal legitimacy; that borders should be
governed cooperatively by the neighboring states and the states
system; and that border redrawing should be done with environmental
conservation in mind. The book explores how this model undoes the
exclusionary politics of desert islands.
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