Sovereignty and Territorial Temptation: The Grotian Tendency
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| Anteprima |
This
powerful book stands on its head the most venerated tradition in
international law and discusses the challenges of scarcity, sovereignty,
and territorial temptation. Newly emergent resources, accessible
through global climate change, discovery, or technological advancement,
highlight time-tested problems of sovereignty and challenge liberal
internationalism's promise of beneficial or shared solutions. From the
High Arctic to the hyper-arid reaches of the Atacama Desert, from the
South China Sea to the history of the law of the sea, from doctrinal and
scholarly treatments to institutional forms of global governance, the
historically recurring problem of territorial temptation in the ageless
age of scarcity calls into question the future of the global commons,
and illuminates the tendency among states to share resources, but only
when necessary.
