Good Fences, Bad Neighbors : Border Fixity and International Conflict PDF
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Good Fences, Bad Neighbors Good Fences, Bad Neighbors Border Fixity and International Conflict Boaz Atzili The University of Chicago Press Chicago & London Boaz Atzili is assistant professor in the School of International Service at American University. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2012 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2012. Printed in the United States of America 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 1 2 3 4 5 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03135-4 (cloth) ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03136-1 (paper) ISBN-10: 0-226-03135-7 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0-226-03136-5 (paper) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Atzili, Boaz. Good fences, bad neighbors : border fi xity and international confl ict / Boaz Atzili. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03135-4 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03136-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-226-03135-7 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-226-03136-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Boundaries—Political aspects. 2. Nation-building. I. Title. jc323.a75 2012 320.1'dc23 2011028475 o This paper meets the requirements of ANSI / NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). For Tomer, Carmel, and Orit, with love C o n t e n t s List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Preface and Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 ∙ The Theory and Practice of Borders 10 2 ∙ Which Wars Make the State and Which States Make War 31 3 ∙ Preconditions to State Building: Making the Case for Comparison 57 4 ∙ State Building and State Weakness before Border Fixity: Brandenburg-Prussia, Argentina, and Poland-Lithuania 73 5 ∙ State Building and State Failure in a Fixed-Borders World: Lebanon, Congo, and Israel 118 6 ∙ State Weakness and International Confl ict in a Fixed-Borders World 163 7 ∙ Conclusions 194 Notes 223 Bibliography 263 Index 281 F i g u r e s 1 Conquests and annexations of homeland territory per state, 1815–2000 25 2 Conquests and annexations of homeland territory per contiguous dyad, 1820–2000 26 3 A world of fl exible borders: Eff ects on weak states 37 4 Eff ects of border fi xity on weak states 45 5 Border fi xity and state building as a continuum 210
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