Independent territories revisited? The concept of partially independent territories (PITs) and the role of such territories in the international system

Riegl, Martin; Doboš, Bohumil; Bečka, Jan

doi:10.1080/21622671.2018.1486226

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“…The force of events: the 'Brexit interval' and popular aspirations for Gibraltarian diplomacy experienced and understood. Recent work has highlighted the agency of non-state diplomatic actors, valorising this pluralisation of the international system (Beier 2009;McConnell 2016a;Visoka 2019;Rezvani 2016; see also Riegl, Doboš, and Bečka (2019) and Rezvani 2019). We argue, however, that the comparative legalistic approach to paradiplomacy (e.g., examination of constitutional arrangements, competencies, etc.)…”

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The force of events: the ‘Brexit interval’ and popular aspirations for Gibraltarian diplomacy

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Territory, Politics, Governance

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This article highlights both over-reliance on legal perspectives in the study of paradiplomacy at the expense of more dynamic understandings of agency, and also the affective force of waiting and other temporal states on political subject formation.Empirically, we report the results of a longitudinal study on Gibraltarians' concerns over the Gibraltar-Spain frontier. By comparing data from two identical surveys conducted a year apart during the period between the Brexit referendum and the (as yet incomplete) legal withdrawal, we trace the force of the incomplete event on political subjectivities.Conceptualising our findings through assemblage theory and paradiplomacy, we highlight that the intensity of the event has heightened Gibraltarians' dissatisfaction with their constitutional reliance on the UK to resolve Brexit in a way advantageous for Gibraltar. A minor shift occurred in the year studied towards more agentic proscriptions of what the Government of Gibraltar ought to do to resolve Brexit. Quantitative analysis reveals that younger respondents tend to emphasise this more agentic view, while older respondentsThe force of events: the 'Brexit interval' and popular aspirations for Gibraltarian diplomacy 2 tend to advocate further lobbying of the UK or feel Gibraltar has a complete lack of agency.Qualitative analysis of the respondents' policy proscriptions reveals a complex set of views within each perspective on agency.

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