By bringing into dialogue modern systems theory and international relations, this text provides theoretically innovative and empirically rich perspectives on co

Predictions that globalization would undermine territorial attachments and weaken the sources of territorial conflict have not been realized in recent decades.

International conflict is neither random nor inexplicable. It is highly structured by antagonisms between a relatively small set of states that regard each othe

This essay is about the management of natural and environmental resources in cross-border areas. It explores a group of geographical, political, legal, economic

Douglas M. Gibler argues that threats to homeland territories force domestic political centralization within the state. Using an innovative theory of state deve