Andreas Faludi
Articles
‘Zeitenwende’: The Retrenchment – or not – of ‘Territorialism’?
Europa XXI (2023) vol. 45, pp. 97-106 | 
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doi: https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2023.45.1
Abstract
‘Zeitenwende’ as announced by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in relation to Ukraine suggests the retrenchment of ‘territorialism’. I discuss this with a focus on Poland. Western Ukraine has after all been Eastern Poland until becoming part of the Ukrainian SSR in 1939. Enlarged with Crimea, the same SSR declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 at a time when Poland was aiming to join the EU and NATO. Now, Poland is a conduit of assistance, military or otherwise to Ukraine. In due course she may need to reconsider her aspiration, as good as fulfilled now, for being a consolidated nation-state. The alternative in 1919 was something like the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of old. That model may become relevant once more. If so, then this would be like my alternative – neo-medievalism – to a territorialism under which nation-states are the exclusive building blocks of the international order. Neo-medievalism stands for political action, including defence, no longer being the exclusive province of the territorial nation-state. If so, then thinking about the state as if it were the owner on behalf of the nation of its territory needs to adapt.
Keywords: neo-medievalism, Poland, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, territorialism, Ukraine
[afaludi@outlook.com], Delft University of Technology, Oostplantsoen 114, 2611 WL Delft: The Netherlands (Professor Emeritus)
Citation
APA: Faludi, A. (2023). ‘Zeitenwende’: The Retrenchment – or not – of ‘Territorialism’?. Europa XXI, 45, 97-106. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2023.45.1
MLA: Faludi, Andreas. "‘Zeitenwende’: The Retrenchment – or not – of ‘Territorialism’?". Europa XXI, vol. 45, 2023, pp. 97-106. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2023.45.1
Chicago: Faludi, Andreas. "‘Zeitenwende’: The Retrenchment – or not – of ‘Territorialism’?". Europa XXI 45 (2023): 97-106. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2023.45.1
Harvard: Faludi, A. 2023. "‘Zeitenwende’: The Retrenchment – or not – of ‘Territorialism’?". Europa XXI, vol. 45, pp. 97-106. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2023.45.1
New Horizons: Beyond Territorialism
Europa XXI (2019) vol. 36, pp. 35-44 | Full text
doi: https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2019.36.3
citation: Faludi, A. (2019). New Horizons: Beyond Territorialism. Europa XXI, 36, 35-44. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2019.36.3
Abstract
Taking inspiration from maritime spatial planning, more in particular the Law of the Sea dividing ocean space into zones of graduated control, including areas beyond national jurisdiction (whereby definition territorialism does not apply) the paper revisits territories as the building blocks of a political order. From there it proceeds to discussing the power, not to say the delusion of territorial sovereignty,only to revisit neo-medievalism as an alternative ordering principle for the governance of space. Accordingly, though sovereign in theory, stand-along territories are in reality conceptualises as being enmeshed in a web of functional relations, many of which with their own governance arrangements and with many overlaps between them. Which makes imposing an overall order a doubtful enterprise.
Keywords: Law of the Sea, maritime spatial planning, neo-medievalism, territorialism
[afaludi@outlook.com], Delft University of Technology, Oostplantsoen 114, 2611 WL Delft: The Netherlands (Professor Emeritus)
Citation
APA: Faludi, A. (2019). New Horizons: Beyond Territorialism. Europa XXI, 36, 35-44. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2019.36.3
MLA: Faludi, Andreas. "New Horizons: Beyond Territorialism". Europa XXI, vol. 36, 2019, pp. 35-44. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2019.36.3
Chicago: Faludi, Andreas. "New Horizons: Beyond Territorialism". Europa XXI 36 (2019): 35-44. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2019.36.3
Harvard: Faludi, A. 2019. "New Horizons: Beyond Territorialism". Europa XXI, vol. 36, pp. 35-44. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2019.36.3
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