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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Territorial sovereignty"”.
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Marking Territory: demarcation of the DRC-Zambia boundary from 1894 to the present day
… boundaries at the local scale. The division of territorial sovereignty through boundaries was known only at a small geographic scale. However, in 1927 a second Anglo-Belgian boundary commission was sent to demarcate what was by that time the Belgian Congo-Northern Rhodesia boundary. Working for …
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Sovereignty, Salt, and Space: The Linkages Between International Space Law and the International System
… dimension are the linkages among the concept of territorial sovereignty, the functional bounds of space activities, and the verifications of strategic arms limitation as they relate to the development of international space law. The thesis of this research has been that such linkages exist and …
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Seeding Sovereignty: Sensory Politics and Biodiversity in the Karen Diaspora
… It also tentatively explores understandings of sovereignty beyond the frame of the Westphalian nation-state through engagements with seed and food sovereignty in three locations that complicate understandings of territorial sovereignty. In this dissertation I explore what I call "agricultural …
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Albanian-American relations: The past and the future
… States (U.S.) in the preservation of Albania's territorial sovereignty right after the First World War, the decisive support of the United States for the democratization processes in Albania, as well as the dynamics of American-Albanian relations during the North Atlantic Treaty Organization …
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COSTA RICA: A PEACEFUL NATION READY TO FIGHT
… is able to safeguard national security and territorial sovereignty while responding to a series of hostile external disputes with neighboring Nicaragua. It examines how Costa Rica’s actions and decisions in response to these disputes supports or impugns established tenets of international …
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Baseline determination : an examination with special reference to the low-water mark
… all rights which depend for their exercise upon territorial sovereignty must be valid up to a given line and there stop. 1 Numerous methods have been used to delimit maritime boundaries as evidenced by State practice. But when exact sea boundary measurement was initiated in the last century all …
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Self-determination means determining self: lifestyle politics and the Republic of New Afrika, 1968-1989
… years and New Afrikans’ efforts to procure territorial independence in order to make their contributions to African American politics better known. It considers in depth the connection between Black self-determination, citizenship, and territorial sovereignty as it seeks to position New …
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The challenges of a water system management handover in eastern Ethiopia : from the United Nations Refugee Agency to a local community
… failure. Factors include issues of geopolitics, sovereignty, dependency and space. The Ethiopian state's right to territorial sovereignty has very significant spatial and planning implications for where refugee camps are located, how they are built and to what extent public services are shared …
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Institutional Counterinsurgency Frameworks in Africa’s Lake Chad Basin and the Operations of the Multinational Joint Task Force Against Boko Haram
… their respect for and protection of states’ territorial sovereignty, and distortions in their counterinsurgency approaches. The study, therefore, recommended that the Lake Chad Basin Commission formulates its own counterinsurgency strategy. Also, the MNJTF should establish common values and …
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Enactive Democracy
… to preside over a jurisdiction vis-Ă -vis the territorial sovereignty of the state must reconfigure claims to fall under their purview. The ensuing regulations can be more harmful than when practices were enacted without regulated sanction. As a corrective, this dissertation takes initial steps …
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Nationalism in the 21st Century and its impact on revisionist great powers
… including: historical claims; the assertion of territorial sovereignty rights; or, in coming to the aid of an ally. What is most concerning is the nationalistic rhetoric which has accompanied these actions with its central focus on the attainment, or re-establishment, of great power status. Both …
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Inventing "crime" in a lawless land: legal conflict, racial formation, and conquest in the North American interior
… to an instrument by which they claimed absolute territorial sovereignty over spaces delineated by international boundaries. By the 1810s, the British fur-trading companies were learning that they could no longer mobilize indigenous allies to use against their rivals, who were now British …
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The aboriginal rights of the New Zealand Maori at common law
… indigenous Maori tribes of New Zealand ceded the sovereignty of New Zealand to the British Crown in return for the protection of the chiefs' rangatiratanga (internal government of the tribe) and the tribes' lands, forests, and fisheries. This agreement is known as the Treaty of Waitangi. This …
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The Paris Attach - a case for the right to self-defence?
… right to self-defence and the host state's territorial sovereignty. In order to mitigate this tension four preconditions, based on the existing law, are developed. To render the defensive use of force by the attacked state lawful, these preconditions have to be fulfilled. The thesis …
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Rivers of Resistance: Aid, Activism and Energy in Cambodia and Myanmar
… of Indigenous self-determination and territorial sovereignty against the encroaching and violent military state, and further epitomised by the ongoing revolution, despite, not because of international aid. Analysis of the Myitsone and Salween Peace Park campaigns, amidst Myanmar’s …
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Transboundary Self-Determination: Remedying the Effects of International Borders
… of uti possidetis as a “photograph” of the territorial situation; a photograph that captures more than the geometric lines of frontiers and reflects the lived experience of borderlands between two or more States. Taken together the three expressions, or trichotomy of self-determination – …
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Alternative Food Production in Cauca, Colombia: The Value of Agroecological Food Systems for Local Small Producers and Consumers
… a legacy of cultural identity and food sovereignty that still provides food security among rural and urban populations, making these practices an essential part of Colombia’s social structure.</p>