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State territory — Parts of — National waters — Definition of inland waters — Submerged Lands Act, 1953 — Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, 1958 — The law of the United States of America.

State coercion is a multifunctional scientific and legal category that is studied in various branches of law. At the same time, there is no unity among scientists about the concept of state coercion, its signs. The purpose of the article was to explore the notion of state coercion and to justify its legitimacy. The article considered the concept of coercion in philosophical, psychological, sociological and legal aspects. In the separation of state coercion from legal coercion, it was concluded that these concepts are not identical, since state coercion, based as well as legal in law, is actually implemented in relation to a particular life situation is implemented in measures that are a meaningful component of state-power relations.

In this episode of Stray Landings FM, we are joined by Dr Monique Charles & Hence Therefore as we discuss the relationship between music and the state: how music can resist the state, the impact of state laws and borders on music culture, and the meaning of 'piracy'.

The volume critically discusses theoretical discourses and theoretically informed case studies on state violence and state terror. How do states justify their acts of violence? How are these justifications critiqued? Although legally state terrorism does not exist, some states nonetheless commit acts of violence that qualify as state terror as a social fact. In which cases and under what circumstances do (illegitimate) acts of violence qualify as state terrorism? Geographically, the volume covers cases and discourses from the Caucasus, South East and Central Asia, the Middle East, and North America. The Content -Foundations - Cases Target Groups Researchers and students from the field of political and social science The Editor Bettina Koch is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA (USA)

This paper develops a predatory theory approach to understanding state failure. Predatory theory expects that state revenue extraction is central to the ability of states to engage in any other activities. States that are able to maximize their revenue extraction subject to well-known constraints are therefore likely to avoid state failure. On the other hand, when state failure occurs, it should reduce state revenue extraction. These hypotheses receive mixed support in several two-stage least-squares time-series analyses that control for the endogenous relationship between state fiscal capacity and state failure. While state failure reduces state fiscal capacity, state fiscal capacity does not deter state failure onset or incidence. In the sub-Saharan African subsample, state fiscal capacity does reduce the incidence of state failure despite a reciprocal negative effect.

Danny Rubinstein's account, in his Summer 2010 Dissent article ("One State/Two States: Rethinking Israel and Palestine"), of the disdainful reaction of Sufyan Abu-Zayda, a prominent figure in the Palestinian Authority, to Benjamin Netanyahu's "Bar-Ilan speech," in which the right-wing prime minister of Israel formally accepted the two-state solution, is remarkable and telling. Someone who perceives this conflict as it is usually perceived—a small people struggling for national independence after decades of military occupation by a mighty regional power—would perhaps have expected something different. Admittedly, it is natural enough to avoid giving the rival side credit for any show of moderation. A moderate Palestinian spokesman might have questioned Netanyahu's sincerity, called on the international community to hold the prime minister to his word, and insisted that the future Palestinian state be established on Palestinian terms rather than those suggested by Netanyahu. Instead, Abu-Zayda dismisses the very idea of separate Palestinian statehood: Netanyahu is not doing us any favors by agreeing to two states; we have another, more attractive option—"one state."

AbstractState capacity is known to constitute a driver of economic development. This note establishes the emergence of state power as a precondition for the development of state capacity. After clearly establishing the differences between these concepts, I explore the geographical factors favouring the emergence of state power and provide some evidence from a study of Madagascar.