Independence Under International Law

Dumbauld, Edward

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“…Political historians and IR scholars have long seen independence as an important concept (Armitage, 2004;Dumbauld, 1976;Fromkin, 1981;Linklater, 1998;Schulze, 1994;Woolf, 1996). Political geographers have paid less -especially theoreticalattention to this notion and instead have theorized concepts such as sovereignty, state/nation, territory, border, national identity, and war (Agnew, 2009;Herb & Kaplan, 1999;Knight, 1982;Mellor, 1989;Murphy, 2013;Shaudys, 1962).…”

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Dancing on the graves: Independence, hot/banal nationalism and the mobilization of memory

Paasi

2016

Political Geography

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Nationalism is frequently considered as an extreme, 'hot' phenomenon related to often violent nation/ state-building processes. Billig's Banal Nationalism turned the attention to how nationalism is also 'flagged' and routinely reproduced in existing states. This article studies the mobilization of these forms of nationalism and suggests that independence is a useful notion in bridging the hot/banal divide and for tracing the 'hot in the banal'. Whereas for separatist movements independence is primarily a goal aspired to, in existing states independence/sovereignty is used to bring together hot and banal forms of nationalism which are mobilized in reproducing the discourses/practices related to the purported national identity. This paper first outlines a heuristic framework for conceptualizing independence and its key dimensions in relation to hot and banal nationalism as well as state-territory building. Secondly, the paper will study empirically the merit of the notion of independence regarding nationalism research via four themes:(1) the role of independence in Finland's state/nation-building process, spatial socialization and in mixing hot and banal nationalism; (2) the use of the 'independence card' by (nationalist) parties; (3) the mobilization of nationalist practices/discourses in the performativity of Finnish Independence Day; and (4) the resistance that the independence celebrations have incited. This study shows that the idea of independence in this context is inward-looking, draws on Othering, and is flagged in media and spatial socialization (e.g. education) using particular iconographies, landscapes, events, and memories related above all to wars. Rather than expressing hot or banal nationalism these discourses/practices effectively merge the two, challenging any simple dichotomy between them. The performativity of Independence Day in particular displays this blending.

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Dancing on the graves: Independence, hot/banal nationalism and the mobilization of memory

Paasi

2016

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Sea power and the law of the sea: The need for a contextual approach

Walker

1979

Ocean Development & International Law

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Revolution and World Order

Armstrong

1993

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This study examines the impact of revolutionary states upon international society. These states have always posed major problems for the achievement of world order: revolution is often accompanied by international as well as civil conflict, while revolutionary doctrines have proven to be highly disruptive of the existing structure of international politics. Conversely, the prevailing international order presents fundamental difficulties for some revolutionary states. The belief system on which its revolution was founded and which legitimized the assumption of state power by the revolutionary elite is certain to run counter to the prevailing political doctrines of many other states. David Armstrong asks whether revolutionary states are ‘socialized’ into adopting acceptable patterns of international behaviour, or whether it is the international society that is forced to change when these new states appear. He looks in detail at the French, American, and Russian revolutions and at several post‐1945 revolutionary states. He also examines the relationship between revolutionary states and the principal ordering devices of an international society: international law, diplomacy, and the balance of power. His book is a significant contribution to the ‘English School’ literature, whose central concept is that of an international society. It shows how the interaction between revolutionary states and the established norms, rules, and institutions of international society works to produce change in both the revolutionary state and international society itself. As such it elucidates the dynamic aspects of international society.

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Independence Under International Law

Cited by 17 publications

References 4 publications

Dancing on the graves: Independence, hot/banal nationalism and the mobilization of memory

Dancing on the graves: Independence, hot/banal nationalism and the mobilization of memory

Sea power and the law of the sea: The need for a contextual approach

Revolution and World Order

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