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Boxing Pandora: Defining Borders in a Democratizing World

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Territorial integrity is supposed to provide stability, but what if borders are the problem--what if they distort democratic choices and exacerbate communal disputes? This paper theorizes a right of secession based on self-identifying communities.

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Waters, Timothy. "Boxing Pandora: Defining Borders in a Democratizing World" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference, Palmer House Hotel, Hilton, Chicago, IL, Apr 03, 2008 <Not Available>. 2010-03-12 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p267428_index.html>

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Abstract: Territorial integrity is supposed to provide stability, but what if borders are the problem--what if they distort democratic choices and exacerbate communal disputes? This paper theorizes a right of secession based on self-identifying communities.

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Boxing Pandora: Defining Borders in a Democratizing World Draft – Not for citation without permission. Current through 2 April 2008. Timothy William Waters* Introduction and Rationale Canonical and practical approaches to the territorial state in the post-war era have cabined collective claims about the polity into very limited political space. Self- determination has largely been limited to the liberation of colonies.1 Norms of territorial integrity (and non-aggression) have largely ensured the maintenance of existing states within their historically received
I do not believe that any of the previous studies in self-determination have successfully developed such a synthesis (in significant part because they have seldom attempted one although Cassese Danspeckgruber and Hannum take important steps in that direction). A risk with this approach is that it will either succumb to polemical advocacy for expansive ethnic claims or on the other hand will be so beholden to an accurate assessment of current doctrinal thinking that it will prove unable to


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