The Territorial Dimension of Politics: Within, Among, and Across Nations

ISBN-13: 9780367311957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 328 str.

Ivo D. Duchacek; Helena Duchacek

Opis

This book examines the dialectical tensions between global and regional interdependence and the fragmentation of humankind into territorial entities. It analyzes the territorial organization of political authority in democratic and authoritarian frameworks as well as in unitary and federal systems.

Spis treści

Preface -- Territorial Politics -- Components of International and National Systems -- Universalist Creeds and the Territorial Gravitational Pull -- Territorial Power Maps: Decentralization -- Federal Systems -- Democracy’s Territorial Twin: Federalism -- Ten Yardsticks of Federalism -- Confederal Associations -- The American Confederal Experience and the World Today -- Consociations of Sovereignties: Myth and Reality of International Organizations -- Permeable Sovereignties -- Percolation of Sovereign Boundaries -- Encounters of a New Kind: International Competence of Noncentral Governments -- Front Belize to the Beaufort Sea -- Conclusion

O autorze

Ivo D. Duchacek, professor emeritus of political science of the City College of the City University of New York and visiting scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley, is the author of several books on comparative politics, federalism, and international relations.