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Political science of the periphery: Part I

Political science of the periphery: Part I By Sam Ratner © Ferley Ospina/AP A Venezuelan migrant family walks away from the Venezuelan border in Pamplona, Colombia, Oct. 7, 2020.  This analysis was featured in Critical State, a weekly newsletter from The World and Inkstick Media.  . You know the state, right? It’s got borders, and a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence within them? On the international stage, it acts on an equal legal basis to all the other states? It has a flag? Most international politics studies rest on this classical conception of the state, and yet, anyone who actually studies statehood will readily admit that few, if any, states actually meet those definitional requirements. Borders can be fluid, claims to a universal monopoly on force strain credulity, and states are self-evidently unequal in international law check out who gets seats on the UN Security Council, for starters.

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