The Changing Nature of Interstate Territorial Conflict and Its Management

Session Submission Type: In-Person Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Over the last thirty years, scholars repeatedly find that disputes over territory (e.g., the placement of interstate war) lead to interstate violence more often than disputes over other, non-territorial issues. This broad trend, however, obscures significant variation in how the risk of conflict that accompanies territory conflict has evolved over time. This panel investigates that variation. Its participants consider (i) how the motives for territorial seizures change over time, (ii) how demands on behalf of ethnic kin abroad change once territorial integrity norms consolidate, (iii) how regional dynamics (in Latin America) change after territorial integrity and non-intervention norms consolidate, and (iv) how the shift from land-based to sea-based claims alters perceptions about the dispute resolution process.

Sub Unit

• Division 21: Conflict Processes

Individual Presentations

• Interstate Identity Claims Under the Territorial Integrity Norm - Paul R. Hensel, University of North Texas; Christopher Cody Macaulay, West Texas A&M University; Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, University of Iowa; Andrew Owsiak, University of Georgia; Krista E. Wiegand, University of Tennessee

• The Causes of Modern Conquest - Dan Altman, Georgia State University; Melissa M. Lee, Princeton University

• The Shadow of Institutional Bias and Territorial Disputes - Songying Fang, Rice University; Xiaojun Li, University of British Columbia

• Non-Intervention, Territorial Integrity, and Peace in the Americas - Luis L Schenoni, University College London; Gary Goertz; Andrew Owsiak, University of Georgia; Paul F. Diehl, Independent Scholar

Chair

• Kenneth A. Schultz Stanford University

Discussants

• Kenneth A. Schultz Stanford University

• Henk Erich Goemans University of Rochester