LEADER 03381nam 22005055 450 001 9910793818703321 005 20210901165152.0 010 $a0-300-24943-8 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300249439 035 $a(CKB)4100000010010286 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5993954 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002256100 035 $a(DE-B1597)545085 035 $a(OCoLC)1130903927 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300249439 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010010286 100 $a20200526h20202020 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBoxing Pandora $eRethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World /$fTimothy William Waters 210 1$aNew Haven, CT :$cYale University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (303 pages) 225 1 $aYale scholarship online 300 $aAlso issued in print: 2020. 311 $a0-300-23589-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tPreface: Why Write a Book about Secession? Why Read One? --$tA Note on Reading This Book --$tIntroduction: The Boxes We Live in, the Beliefs We Have --$t1. The Failure of a Flourishing Idea: The Decadence of Self-Determination --$t2. The Map of Our World: The Limits of the Classical System --$t3. The Measure of Nations: Testing the Assumptions behind the Classical Rule --$t4. A New Right to Secession --$t5. People, Territory, Plebiscite: The Main Features?Objections and Answers --$t6. Broader Implications: Features and Effects of the New Rule --$t7. The Hardest Part: Creating a Right of Secession --$tConclusion: The Value of Asking --$tAppendix: Scholarly Ferment on a Decadent Topic --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited and Consulted --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aA timely and provocative challenge to the foundations of our global order: why should national borders be unchangeable? The inviolability of national borders is an unquestioned pillar of the post?World War II international order. Fixed borders are believed to encourage stability, promote pluralism, and discourage nationalism and intolerance. But do they? What if fixed borders create more problems than they solve, and what if permitting borders to change would create more stability and produce more just societies? Legal scholar Timothy Waters examines this possibility, showing how we arrived at a system of rigidly bordered states and how the real danger to peace is not the desire of people to form new states but the capacity of existing states to resist that desire, even with violence. He proposes a practical, democratically legitimate alternative: a right of secession. With crises ongoing in the United Kingdom, Spain, Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, and many other regions, this reassessment of the foundations of our international order is more relevant than ever. 410 0$aYale scholarship online. 606 $aBoundaries 606 $aSecession 615 0$aBoundaries. 615 0$aSecession. 676 $a320.12 700 $aWaters$b Timothy William$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01524703 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793818703321 996 $aBoxing Pandora$93765728 997 $aUNINA