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19 - Territory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2021

By
Ralf Michaels
Edited by
Jean d'Aspremont  and
John Haskell
Jean d'Aspremont
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
John Haskell
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
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In the spring of 2020, globalization came to a halt, seemingly. In view of the spread of a new kind of Coronavirus, countries worldwide closed their borders. Populations were confined to their own states, sometimes their own districts, or their own apartments. Legal regulations were enacted at the state and substate level, and their enforcement was strictly confined. International organizations, the World Health Organization, proved incapable of bringing the world together and fell into crisis; at the time of finalizing this essay, the US President has announced his plan to withdraw from it. Territory mattered again.

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Tipping Points in International Law
Commitment and Critique
 , pp. 332 - 349
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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