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Explores a significant cross-section of South Asian fiction in English written on the theme of Partition from the mid-1950's to the late 1980's

India --History --Partition, 1947. --- Partition, Territorial, in literature. --- South Asian fiction (English) --History and criticism. --- South Asian fiction (English) --- Partition, Territorial, in literature --- English --- English Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- South Asian literature (English) --- India --- History

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In Jerusalem and Northern Ireland, territorial disputes have often seemed indivisible, unable to be solved through negotiation, and prone to violence and war. This book challenges the conventional wisdom that these conflicts were the inevitable result of clashing identities, religions, and attachments to the land. On the contrary, it was radical political rhetoric, and not ancient hatreds, that rendered these territories indivisible. Stacie Goddard traces the roots of territorial indivisibility to politicians' strategies for legitimating their claims to territory. When bargaining over territory, politicians utilize rhetoric to appeal to their domestic audiences and undercut the claims of their opponents. However, this strategy has unintended consequences; by resonating with some coalitions and appearing unacceptable to others, politicians' rhetoric can lock them into positions in which they are unable to recognize the legitimacy of their opponent's demands. As a result, politicians come to negotiations with incompatible claims, constructing territory as indivisible.

Nationalism --- Political violence --- Rhetoric --- Partition, Territorial --- Political aspects --- Ireland --- History --- Divided states --- Partitioned states --- States, Divided --- States, Partitioned --- Territorial partition --- Administrative and political divisions --- Dismemberment of nations --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Jerusalem --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Nationalism - Northern Ireland --- Political violence - Northern Ireland --- Rhetoric - Political aspects - Northern Ireland --- Political violence - Jerusalem --- Rhetoric - Political aspects - Jerusalem --- Partition, Territorial - Case studies --- Ireland - History - Partition, 1921

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The depth and intensity of the transformation in Eastern and Central Europe in the 1980's and 1990's took most diplomats and political commentators by surprise. Needless to say, European politics now looks completely different from how it did during the stale years of the Cold War. This volume is an in-depth analysis of one aspect of the transformation - namely the Baltic States' struggle to regain the statehood they had lost in the Soviet occupation in June 1940. It analyses the claim of illegality of the Soviet occupation, arguments about possible prescription, the legal consequences of illegality as well as the restoration of the statehood of the three Baltic States after 1990. The relevant facts are clearly described and the application of the legal rules is skillfully based on arguments from precedent and legal principle. The author also discusses the question of the significance of (pure) legal status, detached from the enjoyment of rights and obligations which that status entails in law.

Annexation (International law). --- Dismemberment of nations. --- Dismemberment of nations --- Annexation (International law) --- Baltic States --- International status --- History --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Sovereignty --- Partition, Territorial --- State succession --- Cession of territory --- Acquisition of territory --- International law --- Territory, National --- Baltic Republics --- Baltics (States) --- Autonomy and independence movements. --- International status. --- National independence movements --- Secession movements --- Social movements --- Decolonization --- Nationalism

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Failing states share characteristics of inadequate structural competency, including, inter alia, the inability to advance human welfare and security. Economic inequalities and corruption are present, as well as a loss of legitimacy and reduced social cohesion. Failure of rule of law is manifested in areas of judicial adjudication, security, reduced territorial control and systemic political instability. The international community often confronts these challenges in a manner that actually complicates issues further through lack of consensus among state actors. Consequently, a new and emerging concept of sovereignty requires review in terms of the postmodern state. Through scholarly consideration, State Legitimacy and Failure in International Law evaluates gaps in structural competency that precipitate state failure and examines the resulting consequences for the world community

Nation-state. --- Failed states. --- Dismemberment of nations. --- Legitimacy of governments. --- Governments, Legitimacy of --- Legitimacy (Constitutional law) --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Revolutions --- Sovereignty --- State, The --- General will --- Political stability --- Regime change --- Partition, Territorial --- State succession --- State failure --- Political science --- National state --- National interest --- Self-determination, National --- Dismemberment of nations --- Failed states --- Legitimacy of governments --- Nation-state

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Imagine the patriotic camaraderie of national day parades. How crucial is performance for the sustenance of the nation? The Performance of Nationalism considers the formation of the Indian and Pakistani nation, in the wake of the most violent chapter of its history: the partition of the subcontinent. In the process, Jisha Menon offers a fresh analysis of nationalism from the perspective of performance. Menon recuperates the manifold valences of 'mimesis' as aesthetic representation, as the constitution of a community of witnesses, and as the mimetic relationality that underlies the encounter between India and Pakistan. The particular performances considered here range from Wagah border ceremonies, to the partition theatre of Asghar Wajahat, Kirti Jain, M. K. Raina, and the cinema of Ritwik Ghatak and M. S. Sathyu. By pointing to the tropes of twins, doubles, and doppelgangers that suffuse these performances, this study troubles the idea of two insular, autonomous nation-states of India and Pakistan. In the process, Menon recovers mimetic modes of thinking that unsettle the reified categories of identity politics.

Performing arts --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Indic drama --- Nationalism in literature. --- Partition, Territorial, in literature. --- Partition, Territorial, in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures, Indic. --- Nationalism in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- East Indian motion pictures --- Indic motion pictures --- Motion pictures, East Indian --- Foreign films --- Indic literature --- History and criticism. --- India --- Pakistan --- Dominion of Pakistan --- Bākistān --- Islamic Republic of Pakistan --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Pakistan --- Islami Jamhuriya e Pakistan --- Pākistāna --- پاکِستان --- Islāmī Jumhūrī-ye Pākistān --- باكستان --- Paquistan --- Пакістан --- Ісламская Рэспубліка Пакістан --- Пакистан --- Ислямска република Пакистан --- Isli︠a︡mska republika Pakistan --- Islamische Republik Pakistan --- Eʼeʼaahjí Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah --- Pakistani Islamivabariik --- Πακιστάν --- Ισλαμική Δημοκρατία του Πακιστάν --- Islamikē Dēmokratia tou Pakistan --- Jamhuryat Islami Pakistan --- State of Pakistan --- Islāmī Jumhūriyah Pākistān --- パキスタン --- Pakisutan --- West Pakistan (Pakistan) --- History --- Influence. --- In literature. --- In motion pictures.