Homelands: Shifting Borders and Territorial Disputes
Nadav G. Shelef
Abstract
Why are some territorial partitions accepted as the appropriate borders of a nation's homeland, whereas in other places conflict continues despite or even because of division of territory? This book develops a theory of what homelands are that acknowledges both their importance in domestic and international politics and their change over time. These changes, the book argues, are driven by domestic political competition and help explain the variation in whether partitions resolve conflict. The book also provides systematic, comparable data about the homeland status of lost territory over time t ... More
Keywords: territorial partition, borders, homeland, international politics, domestic politics, lost territory, nationalism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 | Print ISBN-13: 9780801453489 |
| Published to Cornell Scholarship Online: January 2021 | DOI:10.7591/cornell/9780801453489.001.0001 |
