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- Title
Konflikte um Svalbard: Der Spitzbergenvertrag und Norwegens Souveränitätspolitik.
- Authors
Humrich, Christoph
- Abstract
The Spitsbergen Treaty gives Norway the "full and absolute sovereignty" over the Svalbard Archipelago. At the same time, it guarantees nationals of all treaty parties equal access rights to the islands resources. Conflicts emerging between the Norwegian governance other treaty parties' claims have long existed. To reduce these conflicts to quarrels over resources, however, glances over tensions in underlying conceptions of sovereignty. These tensions have been identified in a Grotian understanding of international law, in light of which the Norwegian sovereignty politics can be characterized as giving in to a "territorial temptation". Even though such an analysis identifies the core of the problem, it does not offer a solution. Such a solution might be found in a Kantian understanding of international law, suggesting to view the treaty as an example of "a special friendly agreement" for universal hospitality according to the third definitive article of Kant's Perpetual Peace.
- Subjects
NORWAY; KANT, Immanuel, 1724-1804; INTERNATIONAL law; EQUAL rights; SOVEREIGNTY; TREATIES; ARCHIPELAGOES; TEMPTATION
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB), 2022, Vol 29, Issue 1, p96
- ISSN
0946-7165
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5771/0946-7165-2022-1-96