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Stephen Saideman: NATO in Afghanistan – Fighting Together, Fighting Alone
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Stuart Elden: The Birth of Territory
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Barney Warf: Global Geographies of the Internet
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Leonhardt van Efferink: Lebanon’s sovereignty – The military, social and political rise of Hezbollah
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David Storey: Territories, landscapes, spaces, places, states, borderless world
Interview with David Storey about Territories, landscapes, spaces, places, states, borderless world (Territorialisation, territoriality, claims, independence, legitimate government, Transnistria, Libya, Kosovo)
Alexander Murphy: Nationalism, sovereignty, social constructs, human rights
Interview with Alexander Murphy as part of the Geopolitical Passport series (Nationalism, sovereignty, social constructs, human rights, geopolitical concepts, ideas, imagination)
Jamie Scudder: Territorial Integrity – Modern States and the International System
Article by Jamie Scudder called Jamie Scudder: Territorial integrity 1 – modern states and the international system (political, jurisdiction, Peace of Westphalia, Lebanon, Somalia)
Juliet Fall: Boundaries – Processes, practices and typologies
Interview with Juliet Fall about Boundaries – processes, practices and typologies (allocation, delimitation, demarcation, reification, naturalisation, fetishisation, artificial, good, bad, Lord Curzon)
William Worster: Sovereignty – Two Competing Theories of State Recognition – William Worster
Article by William Worster called Sovereignty: two Competing Theories of State Recognition (Constitutive, Declatory, Legal View, Statehood, International Law, Court, Justice, Montevideo, Genocide Convention)
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Interview with Stuart Elden on Territory, terror and sovereignty (Spatial Extent Contingent Territorial Integrity United States Robert Kaplan Thomas Barnett Al Qaeda Radical Islamism)
Patri Friedman: Permanent autonomous ocean communities, Seasteading Institute
Interview with Patri Friedman about Permanent autonomous ocean communities (Seasteading Institute, City States)
Michel Foucher: Borders, security and identity
Interview with Michel Foucher about borders, boundaries and frontiers (conflicts, security, identity, Europe, Central Asia)
Gideon Biger: Palestine’s history and origin of the borders
Interview with Gideon Biger about borders of Palestine (Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, boundaries, frontiers)
Emel Akçali: Ethnic-territorial conflicts, Environmental Peacemaking, Mental Maps
Interview with Emel Akçali about Ethnic-territorial conflicts, Environmental Peacemaking, Mental Maps (Globalisation, World Systems Theory, Eurasianism)
Michael Strauss: Territorial leasing and boundary conflicts
Interview with Michael Strauss about Territorial Leasing (Boundary Conflicts, Border Disputes, Guantanamo Bay)