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The Rebirth of Territory. By Gail Lythgoe. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xv, 258. Index

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The Rebirth of Territory. By Gail Lythgoe. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xv, 258. Index

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2025

Ingrid Brunk
Ingrid Brunk*
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Vanderbilt Law School
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 119 , Issue 1 , January 2025 , pp. 222 - 227
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of American Society of International Law

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References

1 See Stuart Elden, The Birth of Territory 22–26 (2013).

2 Id.; Doreen Massey, Spatial Divisions of Labor: Social Structures and the Geography of Production (1995).

3 Territory has been described as a “new topic in contemporary political philosophy.” Stilz, Anna, Review Article: Territory and Self-Determination, 27 Ann. Rev. Pol. Sci. 337 (2024)Google Scholar.

4 Jure Vidmar, Territorial Status in International Law (2024); Cara Nine, Sharing Territories: Overlapping Self-Determination and Resource Rights (2022); Anna Stilz, Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration (2019); Margaret Moore, A Political Theory of Territory (2015). See also Paulina Espejo Ochoa, On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place (2020); Andrew Fitzmaurice, Sovereignty, Property, and Empire 1500–2000 (2014).

5 See Brunk, Ingrid & Hakimi, Monica, The Prohibition of Annexations and the Foundations of Modern International Law, 118 AJIL 417 (2024)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Timothy William Waters, Boxing Pandora: Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World (2020).

6 See Enrico Milano, Unlawful Territorial Situations in International Law: Reconciling Effectiveness, Legality and Legitimacy (2006).

7 Vidmar, supra note 4, at 2.

8 Id. at 17, 62, 103.

9 Other important recent work that pushes (explicitly or implicitly) to destabilize the concept of statehood in international law includes: Natasha Wheatly, The Life and Death of States (2023); Alex Green, Statehood as Political Community: International Law and the Emergence of New States (2024).