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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554251503321

Autore

Shelef Nadav G (Nadav Gershon), <1974->

Titolo

Homelands : shifting borders and territorial disputes / / Nadav G. Shelef [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5017-0972-0

1-5017-1236-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

320.1/2

Soggetti

Boundaries

Territory, National

Boundary disputes

Geopolitics

Irredentism

Nationalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Homelands -- The shifting contours of the German homeland -- The forgotten partition: Italy and its terra irredenta -- Homelands and change in a stateless nation -- The withdrawal of homeland territoriality in a cross-national perspective -- Losing homelands and conflict.

Sommario/riassunto

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.