Fronteras Rojas (Red Borders)

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The borderlands of a country say a lot about the society that makes it up. These sensitive edges let conflict take root easily, disguise insecurity, and facilitate the emergence of norms and rules outside state-provided citizenship.  In the absence of the State, these spaces promote forms of organisation and relationships that are the heart of the logics of war and organised crime. Annette Idler has managed to understand the complexity of cross-border territories.

International Law as Driver of Confrontation: UNCLOS and China’s Policy in the South China Sea

Theoretical debates over international legal regimes, such as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), have tended to revolve around the constraints international law may or may not place on confrontational state behaviour, leaving its constitutive aspects underexplored. This talk offers a counterintuitive explanation for why tensions in the South China Sea have risen, not declined, in the UNCLOS era. The new international regime reconstituted China and its neighbours’ interests in jurisdiction at sea to produce harder, yet also more ambiguous claim.
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