Cosmopolitanism, State Sovereignty and International Law and Politics:
A Theory
By
Jorge E. Núñez
Chapter 7
Territorial disputes
At the intersection between sovereignty and cosmopolitanism are several intricate crises that need more robust understanding and more effective answers. Examples of multi-layered crises, present at the domestic, regional and international levels, are pandemics; arms, drug and human trafficking; terrorism; the flow of refugees; territorial disputes; conflict; and war. These issues have a particular feature─their comprehension and solution require a collaborative, coherent and cohesive approach academically and politically. At present, the scholarly literature and consequent governmental actions on these issues are unidimensional because they are particular, for example, to a state or a scientific discipline. Two important consequences of this unidimensional focus are that these issues are not examined in their whole complexity and that elements common to many of them are not identified. This monograph at large is an attempt to address both these gaps in existing research by offering a new way to comprehend phenomena that involve sovereignty and cosmopolitanism. More particularly, and in order to show how this novel theory and methodology operate, this chapter applies dimensional approaches to the evaluation of a fictional territorial dispute.
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In turn, this chapter will first introduce the concept of “territorial dispute” and consider the reasons how and why territorial disputes start and why some continue endlessly whilst others reach a solution. For example, the chapter will discuss how the domestic context influences the regional and international dimension and vice-versa. The following section will stage a fictional territorial dispute case that will include the hallmarks of the most controversial and difficult ongoing situations such as Kashmir, the Israel-Palestine difference, the Falklands/Malvinas Islands and Crimea. The goal is to evaluate the fictional territorial difference by reviewing its elements and features in light of the different pluralisms. In doing so, the last two sections will use unidimensional and multidimensional approaches to explain how they would assess the different relevant pluralisms at hand. By making use of the theoretical background suggested in chapter 6, both linear and nonlinear dimensional understandings coupled with time and space variables will showcase the same territorial difference under different lights. The expectation is to better discern the many elements and features that comprise a territorial dispute and, consequently, more comprehensively explain them, in particular their unresolvable and volatile nature.
The rationale to choose territorial disputes as an example of crises that offers a crossover between sovereignty and cosmopolitanism is simple. Despite their apparent peculiarities, arguably, all ongoing crises include a variety of interests and the involved agents fail to offer viable coherent and cohesive, peaceful and permanent ways to deal with them. Understandably, scholars explore crises in different ways because of, for example, the discipline of reference or the particular object or subject of study. However, it is puzzling that these studies are not integrated.
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The main reason for the fragmented explanations with regard to territorial disputes and the failure to tackle their intricacy has to do with the unidimensional way of dealing with them—i.e. scholars, organizations, procedures and remedies only deal with one particular area, agent, issue, etc. To tackle these differences, understand their intricacies and, hopefully, solve them peacefully and permanently, requires a multidimensional approach. Therein, the last section will explain the significance behind the fictional territorial dispute in relation to sovereignty and cosmopolitanism. By shifting from a current unidimensional paradigm about the relationship between sovereignty and cosmopolitanism to a reconceived multidimensional paradigm where sovereignty and cosmopolitanism can (and should) operate together, it is possible to fully comprehend the complexity these disputes have and potentially address them in a more efficient way. The prospects for such a model are promising because it enables to reimagine the global order in a way that can be applied by means of analogy to other issues such as pandemics; arms, drug and human trafficking; terrorism; the flow of refugees; and war.
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