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Author: Geoff Demarest
Published: October 2000
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
ISBN: 0714644757
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Number of Pages: 288

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Geoproperty rediscovers property as a common denominator in human conflict as well a useful tool for International Studies. In order to apply property theory as a key to the analysis of human struggle, a broad definition of the term has to be accepted. 'Property' is more than the things people own; it is the mass of rights and duties that associate persons with things especially land. Arrogation of property is usually the precursor to the violation of 'human rights', but Geoff Demarest argues that the crusade for human rights has become a chase after symptoms that ignores the calculus of violated property rights underlying most murder and theft. A better understanding of property dynamics can help us achieve our strategic designs, pacific or not. With Geoproperty, Demarest seeks to restart International Studies at the point of property, and in so doing to find a mechanism for interpreting property changes, including those brought about by new technologies.This work demonstrates that some innovations create new strategic property and new conflicts. Electromagnetic wavelengths, geostatic orbits, genetic code - these kinds of property are difficult to draw on a map, but people are bound to fight over them, and someone's rights will assuredly be violated in the process. But, Demarest argues, we have not reached the end of history, and modern man has not yet thrown off the chains against which he struggles. Indeed, we will continue to fight over property as before, but the property will take on a post-modern character. This book rediscovers property as a common denominator in human conflict, and as a useful tool for International Studies. To apply property theory as a key to the analysis of human struggle, we first have to accept a broad definition of the term. It is the mass of rights and duties that associate persons with things, especially land. Arrogation of property is usually the precursor to the violation of 'human rights'. The author argues that a better understanding of property dynamics can help us achieve our strategic designs, whether they be pacific or not. Geoproperty seeks to restart International Studies at the point of property and in so doing to find a mechanism for interpreting property changes, including those brought about by the new technologies. A scholar of international studies and an officer in the US Army, Demarest offers a theory of property as the basis for understanding human rights and their violations. He includes in property not only the objects people own, but the whole mass of rights and duties associated with them, and particularly with land. He argues that the arrogation of property is usually the precursor to the violation of human rights, and that grounding the debate and the efforts on property rights will alleviate much chasing after symptoms. The approach, he says, has the advantage of incorporating new technologies as they develop. Distributed by ISBS. .

Table of Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xiii
1 The Concert of Rights and Duties 1
2 Sovereignty: 'Who Owns This Place, Anyway?' 30
3 Technology and the Modernity of Conflict 69
4 Power and Proprietors 110
5 Strategy, Access and Extortion 149
6 Operational Law and Law Enforcement 188
7 New Things, New Owners, New Rules 215
Bibliography 255
Index 267

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