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Past Event
Seminar

This Land is My Land? Territorial Expansion, the International Environment, and Settlement Projects in Post-colonial Times

Open to the Public

The presentation explores the conditions under which a small number of states (Indonesia, Morocco, Israel) launched and maintained settlement projects in disputed territories in order to secure territorial expansion. Counterintuitively, it demonstrates that settlement projects do not reflect the settling states' disregard to the international environment but rather their recognition that international interactions, norms, and institutions matter and could be manipulated.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369
An Israeli woman in the West Bank settlement of Bruchin, which was never officially authorized by the Israeli government, Jan. 3, 2007. It is a community of nearly 400 people, girded by government supplied roads, electricity, & water.

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The presentation explores the conditions under which a small number of states (Indonesia, Morocco, Israel) launched and maintained settlement projects in disputed territories in order to secure territorial expansion. Counterintuitively, it demonstrates that settlement projects do not reflect the settling states' disregard to the international environment but rather their recognition that international interactions, norms, and institutions matter and could be manipulated.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.