Harvard University Press is
publishing a new book on the modern history of statelessness.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The story of how a
much-contested legal category—statelessness—transformed the international legal
order and redefined the relationship between states and their citizens.
Two world wars left millions
stranded in Europe. The collapse of empires and the rise of independent states
in the twentieth century produced an unprecedented number of people without
national belonging and with nowhere to go. Mira Siegelberg’s
innovative history weaves together ideas about law and politics, rights and
citizenship, with the intimate plight of stateless persons, to explore how and
why the problem of statelessness compelled a new understanding of the
international order in the twentieth century and beyond.
In the years following the First
World War, the legal category of statelessness generated novel visions of
cosmopolitan political and legal organization and challenged efforts to limit
the boundaries of national membership and international authority. Yet, as
Siegelberg shows, the emergence of mass statelessness ultimately gave rise to
the rights regime created after World War II, which empowered the territorial
state as the fundamental source of protection and rights, against alternative
political configurations.
Today we live with the results:
more than twelve million people are stateless and millions more belong to
categories of recent invention, including refugees and asylum seekers. By
uncovering the ideological origins of the international agreements that define
categories of citizenship and non-citizenship, Statelessness better
equips us to confront current dilemmas of political organization and authority
at the global level.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mira L. Siegelberg is University
Lecturer in the History of International Political Thought at the University of
Cambridge and a past member of the Princeton University Society of Fellows.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1. From a Subject of Fiction to a
Legal Reality
2. Postimperial States of
Statelessness
3. Postimperial Foundations of
Political Order
4. The Real Boundaries of
Membership
5. A Condition of World Order
6. Nationalizing International
Society
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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