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In Jeusalem, Ireland, Kosovo, and Kashmir, indivisible territory underlies much of international conflict.
In Jeusalem, Ireland, Kosovo, and Kashmir, indivisible territory underlies much of international conflict. Dr. Goddard argues whether or not territory appears indivisible depends upon how actors legitimate their claims to territory during negotiations. Although actors use their rhetoric strategically, in order to gain a political advantage at the bargaining table, legitimation strategies have unintended structural consequences: by resonating with some actors and not others, rhetoric can lock actors into bargaining positions where they are unable to recognize the legitimacy of their opponent’s demands, constructing the territory as indivisible. Dr. Goddard applies this legitimation theory to Ulster and Jerusalem, arguing these territories’ were not inevitably indivisible, but a product of actors’ strategic behavior.
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