Territorial Borders, International Ethics and Geography
Do Good Fences Still Make Good Neighbours
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3948758 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Williams (0000-0003-3173-6048), John Allen Williams (0000-0001-5127-4608, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 25-46 |
| Publication date | 2003-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/714001033 |
| OpenAlex | W2008136252 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
The article surveys and summarises recent literature in political geography and normative international relations theory to highlight how territorial borders are increasingly regarded as social phenomena, rather than material facts, and how this opens them to ethical and normative critique. The article suggests this is a line of enquiry that has yet to be fully developed. In order to do so, though, it is necessary to recognise the ontological sedimentation and power of territorial borders understood as fences between states, suggesting that ontologically minimalist methodologies may be inappropriate. From here, the article argues that an ethically plausible defence of territorial borders-as-fences can be made, but only by scaling back the role that territorial borders play and linking it more closely to the role of borders in making possible and meaningful human ethical life
Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Law · Philosophy
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Borders, Territory, Law1
| Citations per year | 0.83 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |