Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Politics – General and Theories of International Politics, grade: 1.5, The Australian National University, language: English, abstract: It seems a peculiarity of modern capitalist civilisation, that wherever one looks one sees
squares everywhere! Just as this piece of paper, the screen and keys it was typed on are
square, so are the borders of countless states around the globe, cutting through
autochthonous communities separating cultures or forging them into a state [society]
often lacking their prior consent. It is not without fateful irony that, for instance, the table
on which the fate of the African people was decided during the Berlin conference in
1884-85 at which the [still prevailing] borders of colonial Africa were demarcated was:
Square! Square people with square minds made square decisions. However,
contemporary claims of many indigenous peoples who are as diverse and irregular as the
world they exist in continue to challenge the plane polygon geometry of the arbitrary and
artificially constructed artefact of territorial sovereignty by demanding recognition of
their, partial or full self-determination. Thus questioning the moral legitimacy of
sovereign states and the international society [of states].
Über den Autor
Dr. Lüdert is Assistant Professor and Associate Program Director in the School of Applied Leadership at City University of Seattle.
Jan holds a Ph D in International Relations from the department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is a Liu Institute for Global Issues scholar alumnus and recipient of the Killam Graduate Teaching Award. Jan holds a First Class Honors Masters of Arts in International Relations from the Australian National University and a Bachelor of Business Administration and Public Policy from Hamburg University for Economics and Politics. Jan studied at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania focusing on sociology and economics. He coordinated grassroots’ community programs in Botswana for Skillshare International.
His research includes Leadership Theory, International Relations, Political Theory, Intergovernmental Organizations, Non-State Actors, Transnational and Cyberspace Politics, Global Norms, Human Rights. Jan is deeply involved in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning research projects. Jan writes for the Ivory Tower, an E-International relations blog.
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