Boundaries Delimited. The Notion of Territoriality in
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Boundaries Delimited. The Notion of Territoriality in International Relations Theory
Boundaries Delimited. The Notion of Territoriality in International Relations Theory

Author(s): Dionysios Tsirigotis
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Editura Universitatii din Oradea
Keywords: Territoriality; IR theory; Globalization; State Sovereignty; Cosmopolitanism

Summary/Abstract: What does territoriality mean and how is it evaluated in the globalizationera? What are the main strands in IR theory debating the issue of territoriality-sovereigntyand especially about “states function in a debordering world?” This study deals with theabove-mentioned questions, trying to explain and understand the multiple gradations of thenotion of territoriality in the field of International Relations Theory. We consistently relyaround the methodological scheme of Martin Wight’s, International Theory, linking thecurrent theoretical debate around territoriality and state sovereignty to a pendulum, at bothends of which are the anarchic international system and the world civil society. The formercoincides with state sovereignty -international anarchy as the constitutional framework ofthe modern international system that described and analyzed by the two thoughts waves ofInternational Theory-Realism-Rationalism. The latter is crystallized in cosmopolitanismbelief of humanity as the sole ingredient and determining driving force to world society,based on the revolutionary strand of International Theory. A more refined and broadertheoretical approach, grounded on the “liberal-rationalist” thought waves, is globalizationliterature, which seeks to weaken state power and status in the anarchic internationalsystem. As a result, the key issue here is the international political discourse focusing onhuman beings ontological security into state or above state.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 165-180
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English