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International Law, Non-Territorial Ethnic Political Identity and The Politics of Education: The Case of the Alliance Israélite Universelle

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Under modern international law, group political identification and territorial independence are intimately linked: a people is transformed from political subjects into political actors as a result of securing control over a fixed piece of land. The nation-state conflation implies that groups not determined by territorial parameters lack international legal standing by definition. This paper examines the case study of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, a Jewish non-territorial network operating at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, in order challenge the prevailing international legal understanding of public political identity as being organized through land. The Alliance generated a political identity as an ethnic trans-territorial network, invoking private religious education, instead of territory, as a politically organizing force. The result was a new ethnic political identity, based in the cultural realm, which united Jews living in fifteen territories across three continents. This work explores the formal mechanisms that enabled the network to exercise political power, analyzing how the Alliance successfully mobilized education as a form of ethnic politics. The examination suggests that political boundaries need not always be territorial, and that political identity need not be determined solely by geography. Within the evolution of specific situations and the possibilities of a particular moment, a broader understanding of ethnic political identity is possible.
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Paz, Moria. "International Law, Non-Territorial Ethnic Political Identity and The Politics of Education: The Case of the Alliance Israélite Universelle" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA - ABRI JOINT INTERNATIONAL MEETING, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro Campus (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jul 22, 2009 <Not Available>. 2009-08-04 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p381615_index.html>

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Paz, M. , 2009-07-22 "International Law, Non-Territorial Ethnic Political Identity and The Politics of Education: The Case of the Alliance Israélite Universelle" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA - ABRI JOINT INTERNATIONAL MEETING, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro Campus (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil <Not Available>. 2009-08-04 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p381615_index.html

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Abstract: Under modern international law, group political identification and territorial independence are intimately linked: a people is transformed from political subjects into political actors as a result of securing control over a fixed piece of land. The nation-state conflation implies that groups not determined by territorial parameters lack international legal standing by definition. This paper examines the case study of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, a Jewish non-territorial network operating at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, in order challenge the prevailing international legal understanding of public political identity as being organized through land. The Alliance generated a political identity as an ethnic trans-territorial network, invoking private religious education, instead of territory, as a politically organizing force. The result was a new ethnic political identity, based in the cultural realm, which united Jews living in fifteen territories across three continents. This work explores the formal mechanisms that enabled the network to exercise political power, analyzing how the Alliance successfully mobilized education as a form of ethnic politics. The examination suggests that political boundaries need not always be territorial, and that political identity need not be determined solely by geography. Within the evolution of specific situations and the possibilities of a particular moment, a broader understanding of ethnic political identity is possible.

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