Shifting Grounds

Name: Shifting Grounds
SKU: 9780197686690
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Author: Burak Kadercan
ISBN: 9780197686690

The Social Origins of Territorial Conflict

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvBurak Kadercan

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Territory has always played a key role in the origins, conduct, and consequences of armed conflict. For territories to exist in any meaningful sense, human groups need to think of them in the first place, and then act upon these thoughts: territory is what states and societies make of it. In Shifting Grounds, Burak Kadercan draws upon a wide variety of cases, ranging from the Thirty Years War to ISIS, to examine the relationship between "territorial ideas" and armed conflict. He argues that states and societies have adhered to different forms of territoriality across time and space, and territory, as well as territorial control, has meant different things in different time periods and regions. Building on this premise, Kadercan makes two claims. First, how state elites conceive territory within and beyond their domains affects their military objectives as well as methods and strategies for waging war. Second, adherence to different forms of territoriality leads to different modes and patterns of war, and wars themselves may affect how state elites and societies conceive territories. Kadercan then turns to the transformative roles that wars can play in shaping dominant territorial ideas and geopolitical assumptions and how the impact of such wars differs in Western and non-Western regions. Ranging broadly across different eras and world regions, Shifting Grounds sheds light on the shifting nature of the relationship between territorial ideas and armed conflict not only in the context of the distant the past, but also in present-day global politics.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-10-10
Mått229 x 279 x 19 mm
Vikt771 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197686690

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Burak Kadercan is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy at the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, and a Senior Associate at the Center on Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups (CIWAG). Kadercan's research agenda lies at the intersection of International Relations Theory, strategic and security studies, political geography, and international history. His research has been published in outlets such as International Security; International Theory; Review of International Studies; International Studies Review; Territory, Politics, Governance; Middle East Policy; Cambridge Review of International Affairs; and Global Studies Quarterly. He is also the co-editor of Territorial Designs and International Politics: Inside-out and Outside-in (2018).

In the immediate aftermath of what was the most consequential feature of the later twentieth century, the Cold War, there was much debate in different groups within academia about whether the future portended a world in which globalization might roll over the world political map to produce a world without significant territorial divisions or one in which regional spheres of power and influence would produce a more amorphous territoriality which might in turn reproduce many of the features of the Cold War. In this pathbreaking book, a synthetic account brings together both analysis of territorial ideas and actual empirical history, Burak Kadercan provides some basic tools for rethinking how the social sciences in general, and international relations in particular, should approach understanding of the vital role of territoriality in human history.