in a liberal order you need to make demands that don’t set you up for expanded demands, whose burdens curtail your future bargaining power, or that benefit you indirectly (so that indefinite expansion would be irrelevant to your interests)https://twitter.com/QuasLacrimas/status/991030933649346560 …
territorial demands are intrinsically destabilizing to these kinda of conventions b/c 9 times out of 10, each demand sets you up to make the same demand for a new slice of territory slightly further away.
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Something like the Bundesrepublik/DDR reunification, otoh, are conservative because the newly enlarged state is suddenly burdened with a massive unemployment problem
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“Border gore” demands like the Danzig corridor have a stopping place b/c topologically, you cannot create adjacent non-adjacent enclaves by restoring continuity to an existing one
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*additional re-allocating voting power in institutional procedure rarely works unless on the “cooptation” model (old member resigns responsibilities, new member tapped as replacement)
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occasionally you can claim the institution is failing / becoming irrelevant and bully ppl that way, but this only works when “forking” the institution would be just as easy (à la League of Nations/UN)
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Anything else is institutional suicide because ofc whatever power they had available to pressure for reallocation now means they are in an even stronger position to make new demands
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