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Territory, Territoriality and Territorial Politics as Public Law Concepts

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Territorial Politics and Secession

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This chapter aims at exploring the role of territory and territoriality in public law. It clarifies and systematises the role and features of territory, territoriality and territorial politics in constitutional and international law. The chapter offers critical assessment of the conceptualisation of territoriality under the framing paradigms of Westphalian, post-Westphalian and neo-Westphalian constitutionalism.

Special attention is devoted not only to the crisis of territoriality experienced in recent decades but also to the re-emergence of territoriality during the trend towards re-nationalisation which became visible in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapter provides an account of the constitutional importance of territorial politics in the age of globalisation and digitalisation. It discusses the impact of these phenomena on territoriality of power and its constitutional and international law implications. The chapter defines the concept of territorial politics and provides systematisation of the main tools for territorial policy-making.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See Paasi (2003) p. 117.

  2. 2.

    See Eriksen (2014) p. 39 and Brenner (1999) p. 39.

  3. 3.

    See also N. Brenner, op. cit., pp. 39–78.

  4. 4.

    See Vollaard (2009) pp. 687–706, Ruggie (1993) pp. 139–174 and Sack (1983) pp. 55–74.

  5. 5.

    Brenner, op. cit., p. 55; Taylor (1994) pp. 151–162 and Taylor (1995) pp. 1–15.

  6. 6.

    See Belov (2018a).

  7. 7.

    For the transversally bordered spaces and the global cities see Sassen (2001) pp. 1–480, Sassen (2015) p. 17 and the following and Sassen (2013) p. 23.

  8. 8.

    See Antonsich (2009) pp. 789–806.

  9. 9.

    See Eriksen, op. cit.

  10. 10.

    See Brenner, op. cit. and Taylor, op. cit.

  11. 11.

    Jellinek (2010) pp. 1–835.

  12. 12.

    For the concept of Westphalian constitutionalism see Belov (2019a), Belov (2019b) and Belov (2019c).

  13. 13.

    See Belov (2018a).

  14. 14.

    For the post-Westphalian constitutional geometry see Belov (2018b).

  15. 15.

    See Beck (1992) pp. 1–272.

  16. 16.

    See Belov (2018a).

  17. 17.

    See Wagner et al. (2019), Celeste (2018), De Gregorio (2020) and Redeker et al. (2015).

  18. 18.

    For concepts of post-territorial structuring of public power and socio-legal communities see Chandler (2007) pp. 116–119 and Chandler (2012).

  19. 19.

    For the different meanings and uses of glocalisation see Robertson (2012), Swyngedouw (1997) pp. 137–166, Swyngedouw (2004) pp. 25–48 and Khondker (2005) p. 13.

  20. 20.

    For the concept and features of territorial politics see the book series ‘Comparative Territorial Politics’, edited by M. Keating, A. H. Schakel and M. Tatham and published by Palgrave as well as Detterbeck and Hepburn (2018) pp. 1–432.

  21. 21.

    See Hobsbawm (1995) and (1996a, b).

  22. 22.

    For the very recent on the concept of ‘just war’ see the publications of the just war symposium in Philosophia, Volume 48, Issue 4, September 2020 and especially Cebula (2020).

  23. 23.

    See, for example, Jacobsohn and Roznai (2020) pp. 1–384, Albert (2020) p. 424 and Belov and Abat i Ninet (2020).

  24. 24.

    Roznai (2017) pp. 1–368.

  25. 25.

    See Kuhn (1996) pp. 1–212.

  26. 26.

    See Albert, op. cit. and Blokker (2019) pp. 536–553, https://doi.org/10.1093/icon/moz028

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Belov, M. (2021). Territory, Territoriality and Territorial Politics as Public Law Concepts. In: Belov, M. (eds) Territorial Politics and Secession. Federalism and Internal Conflicts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64402-4_2

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