Bounding Whose Territory? Potential Conflict between a State and a Province Desiring Statehood

There is a belief that as the world becomes increasingly economically integrated, the power and influence of the state will be threatened more and more by the rising importance of regions, whether the latter are totally within states or cut across shared boundaries between two and more states. The outcome of such threats will, among other things, involve the interplay between group politico-territorial identities, territory (and its bounding and organisation), self-determination, and political decision-making. These elements, when linked, can have dynamic consequences for the world’s political map.