Explaining the territorial trap: Revisiting the geographical . . . Territory and territoriality lie at the heart of both world politics and International Relations (IR) theory In terms of IR theory’s geographical assumptions, one of the most influential studies to date has been political geographer John Agnew’s 1994 article on the ‘the territorial trap’ (TTT)
Territory versus sovereignty: A review of the “territorial trap . . . The territorial trap theory refutes the existing state-centric view of territory and emphasizes various effective forms of sovereignty besides the state's territory, such as extraterritorial sovereignty, graduated sovereignty, and social sovereignty
The territorial trap: The geographical assumptions of international . . . The end of the Cold War, the increased velocity and volatility of the world economy, and the emergence of political movements outside the framework of territorial states, suggest the need to consider the territoriality of states in historical context
Territorial Trap | Territorial Masquerades The territorial trap had actually frozen geography The “Territorial Trap” involves the following: The first assumption, and the one that is most fundamental theoretically, is the reification of state territorial spaces as fixed units of secure sovereign space The second is the division of the domestic from the foreign