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Oct 4, 2024 · Making sense of the territorial trap. During the 1990s, just like today, IR as a whole did not profess explicit geographical assumptions. Apart from exceptions such as Friedrich Kratochwil, Richard Ashley, and John Ruggie, Footnote 14 most leading IR scholars of the time took territory and territoriality for granted, as if they were concepts so self-obvious that they required no attention ...
2 days ago · An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
Oct 10, 2024 · The legacy of colonialism continues to affect global economic inequality today. Many former colonies still struggle with poverty, underdevelopment, and political instability as a result of the economic structures put in place during colonial times.
4 days ago · Thus, globalization can be defined as the stretching of economic, political, and social relationships in space and time. A manufacturer assembling a product for a distant market, a country submitting to international law, and a language adopting a foreign loanword are all examples of globalization.
2 days ago · Revanchism is an attempt to annex territory belonging to another state. It is motivated by the goal of taking revenge for a previous grievance, in contrast to the goal of irredentism of building an ethnically unified nation-state. In the case of secession, a territory breaks away and forms an independent state instead of merging with another state.
Oct 7, 2024 · Sabotage is a means by which hostile state actors undermine the UK’s national security to further their political, military and economic interests. These acts may be carried out in the UK but can...
Oct 1, 2024 · The demilitarized zone (DMZ) incorporates territory on both sides of the ceasefire line as it existed at the end of the Korean War (1950–53) and was created by pulling back the respective forces 1.2 miles (2 km) along each side of the line.
