Space Is Power
Journal: Lexington Books
Year: 2016

From Russia&amp;rsquo;s annexation of Crimea to China&amp;rsquo;s &amp;lsquo;nine-dash line&amp;rsquo; in the South China Sea, it is clear that territory is as important in international politics now as it has ever been. Yet too few contemporary foreign policy makers, journalists, and scholars are able to speak coherently about territorial issues. Space Is Power: The Seven Rules of Territory challenges the intellectual conceits that human territoriality is merely a social construct, that territo