Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization

January 16-18, 2004

Supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York
An interdisciplinary team of scholars will investigate the effects of global economic and political integration on changing conceptions of territoriality and statehood and the likelihood of intrastate and interstate territorial conflict. The project aims to answer two questions. The first links the progress of globalization with the enduring significance of territory: What are the effects of globalization on the contemporary territorial regime-defined as the norms, institutions, and practices associated with territorial governance? The second question connects these changes in regime to collective violence: How do globalization and changes in the territorial regime affect military conflict between and within states? Project activities will include commissioning research articles to analyze and explain changes in territorial sovereignty over time and how these changes have affected conflict between and within states. These articles will be circulated and discussed at two conferences at UCSD as well as a policy seminar at the University of California's Washington D.C. facility. These meetings will build a community of scholars working on territoriality and conflict, ensure accuracy of research results, encourage ongoing events and highlight policy applications.

Conference Papers

The book, "Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization," is available from Cambridge University Press.

Beyond the Washington Consensus:
New Directions for Development Strategy

May 7, 2004

Participants in a project on globalization, territoriality, and conflict presented their preliminary findings to an audience of about 50 policymakers, embassy and government officials, scholars, and students at an IGCC event at the UC Washington Center. The project was supported in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

For more information, please see Globalization, Territoriality, and Conflict (An IGCC Policy Seminar)

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John Agnew (University of California, Los Angeles) :
"Sovereignty Regimes: Sovereignty and Territory Over Time and Space"

Ibrahim Elbadawi, Havard Hegre (The World Bank, University of Oslo) :
"Globalization, Economic Shock, and Armed Conflict"

James D. Fearon, David D. Laitin (Stanford University) :
"Sons of the Soil, Immigrants and the Civil War"

Erik Gartzke (Columbia University) :
"Globalization and Peace"

Nils Petter Gleditsch, Halvard Buhaug (PRIO, Norwegian University) :
"The Globalization of Armed Conflict"

Hein Goemans (Duke University) :
"On the Homeland"

Miles Kahler (UCSD) :
"Globalization, Territoriality, and Conflict: Definitions and Hypotheses"

David A. Lake, Angela O'Mahony (UCSD, University of British Columbia) :
"Territory, Trade, and War: State Size and Patterns of Inter- and Intrastate Conflict"

Terrence Lyons (George Mason University) :
"Globalization, Diasporas, and Conflict"

David Newman (Ben Gurion University) :
"The Resilience of Territorial Conflict in an Era of Globalization"

Kal Raustiala (UCLA) :
"The Evolution of Territoriality: International Relations & American Law"

Saskia Sassen (University of Chicago) :
"The Locational and Institutional Embeddedness of the Global Economy"

Beth A. Simmons (Harvard University) :
"Trade and Territorial Conflict: International Borders as Institutions"

John Vasquez, Marie T. Henehan (Colgate University) :
"Globalization, Territoriality, and Interstate War"

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