Borders, Legal Spaces and Territories in Contemporary International Law: Within and Beyond

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This book examines the challenges posed to contemporary international law by the shifting role of the border, which has recently re-emerged as a central issue in international relations. It posits that borders do not merely correspond to States’ boundaries: indeed, while remaining a fundamental tool for asserting States’ power, they are in fact a collection of constantly changing spatial limits. Consequently, the book approaches borders as context-specific limits and revisits notions traditionally linked to them (jurisdiction, sovereignty, responsibility, individual rights), while also adopting the innovative approach of viewing borders as phenomena of both closedness and openness. Accordingly, the first part of the book addresses what happens “within” borders, investigating the root causes of the emergence of spatial limits and re-assessing apparent extra-territorial assertions of State power. In turn, the second part not only explores typical borderless spaces, but also more generally considers the exercise of States’ and international organisations’ powers and prerogatives across or “beyond” borders. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Borders and International Law: Setting the Stage (Alice Riccardi, Tommaso Natoli)....Pages 1-20 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Access to Social Security for Migrants in the European Union: Sedentarist Biases Between Citizenship, Residence and Claims for a Post-national Society (Marta Gionco)....Pages 23-58 Non-refoulement in the Eyes of the Strasbourg and Luxembourg Courts: What Room for Its Absoluteness? (Giulia Ciliberto)....Pages 59-91 The Pillars of Heracles of European Private International Law: The Frontiers with Third States and Brexit (Nicolò Nisi)....Pages 93-120 The Principle of Territoriality in EU Data Protection Law (Stefano Saluzzo)....Pages 121-141 Front Matter ....Pages 143-143 Testing the Analogy: The CoE–ECHR System Pioneering Human Rights Protection in the Cyberspace (Tommaso Natoli)....Pages 145-171 The Sky’s Not the Limit: Legal Bonds and Boundaries in Claiming Sovereignty over Celestial Bodies (Paolo Turrini)....Pages 173-209 A Bull in a China Shop: The Exercise of the ICC’s Jurisdiction Over Its Territorial Reach in Situations Involving Non-Party States (Luigi Prosperi)....Pages 211-236 At the Frontier: Values and Borders in the EU’s External Relations (Alessandro Rosanò)....Pages 237-262 Back Matter ....Pages 263-266