Territorial Designs and International Politics

Boaz Atzili is an Associate Professor at the School of International Service of American University, with a PhD from MIT. He is the author of Good Fences Bad Neighbors: Border Fixity and International Conflict (2012) and a forthcoming book on "Triadic Coercion," as well as numerous articles in journals such as International Security, Security Studies, International Studies Review, and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Burak Kadercan is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy at the U.S. Naval War College. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Chicago. Kadercan’s scholarly contributions have appeared in numerous outlets, including International Security, Review of International Studies, and International Theory.

• Introduction 1. Territorial Designs and International Politics: The Diverging Constitution of Space and Boundaries. Boaz Atzili and Burak Kadercan Theorizing Territorial Designs 2. Territory as an Institution: Spatial Ideas, Practices, and Technologies Jordan Branch 3. Methodological Challenges in the Study of Stateless Nationalist Territorial Claims Harris Mylonas and Nadav Shelef 4. Admission to the Sovereignty Club: The Past, Present, and Future of the International Recognition Regime Ryan Griffith Territorial Design Across Time and Space 5. Territorial Design and Grand Strategy in the Ottoman Empire Burak Kadercan 6. The Territory of Colonialism Gerry Kearns 7. Drone Strikes, Ephemeral Sovereignty, and Changing Conceptions of Territory Katherine H. Kindervater 8. Between Land and Sea: Spaces and Conflict Intensity Ehud Eiran