Homelands: Shifting Borders and Territorial Disputes

Homelands: Shifting Borders and Territorial Disputes

by Nadav G. Shelef
Homelands: Shifting Borders and Territorial Disputes

Homelands: Shifting Borders and Territorial Disputes

by Nadav G. Shelef

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Overview

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? In Homelands, Nadav G. Shelef develops a theory of what homelands are that acknowledges both their importance in domestic and international politics and their change over time. These changes, he argues, driven by domestic political competition and help explain the variation in whether partitions resolve conflict.

Homelands also provides systematic, comparable data about the homeland status of lost territory over time that allow it to bridge the persistent gap between constructivist theories of nationalism and positivist empirical analyses of international relations.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780801479922
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 07/15/2020
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Nadav G. Shelef is the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Israel Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Evolving Nationalism.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Understanding Homelands
2. The Shifting Contours of the German Homeland
3. Italy's Forgotten Partition
4. Homelands and Change in a Stateless Nation
5. The Withdrawal of Homeland Territoriality in a Cross-National Perspective
6. Losing Homelands and Conflict
Conclusion

What People are Saying About This

Stacie Goddard

Shelef's work, in each of his chapters, is careful, thoughtful, and methodical. Homelands makes a bold argument, that what we understand as a 'homeland' is actually a social fact that can change over time.

Ron E. Hassner

Homelands are supposed to be the solid foundation on which our political order rests. Shelef teaches us that they are in constant flux. He studies ideas, speeches, and maps, exploring crucial cases and broad data to show us when homelands change. This is an ambitious, beautiful book of great significance.

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