all swell & many thanx
your states as living objects here
is a leading edge thought
& inviting to enlarge upon
m
>
>First, the cyprus maps came out ok for me on the first but not second post.
>How about the rest of you?
>I will repost if necessary.
>
>
>As there are somewhere in the vicinity of 150-200 INdo-bangla enclaves, any
>census needs to sort them out. Which is exactly what my thesis is trying to
>do. Who's got what, where and since when.
>Fragments is my word for any part of the (land surface) of a country that is
>'broken off', either an island, or the far side of a lake only accessible by
>boat (ie angel innlet), or enclaves or whathave you.
>I am trying to classify fragments, of which true enclaves are the most
>extreme.
>
>full details available within 6 months in my forthcoming tome.
>
>>second
>>would the above questions be answered any differently if adjacent
>>territorial seas were considered integral parts of those coastal clave
>>territories that have them
>>just as much as they are integral to the so called metropolitan areas or
>>nuclear territories of coastal & archipelagic countries generally
>>
>
>Probably. For example the one on cyprus, which goes down to the tide line,
>and no further. Monaco's EEZ is enclaosed within Frances, so in watery
>terms, it is an enclave, nort a coastal fragment.
>St Pierre et Miquelon are islands, but their EEZs arel ikewise enclosed in
>Canadas', making them enclaves.
>
>B
>
>>third
>>do you really mean by the term fragments to invoke the idea of fracturing &
>>breaking
>>& to imply that these entities have actually been broken or have broken
>>or are broken or are being broken in some sense
>>
>
>It's a useful metaphor. The question with enclaves is: are they a remannider
>of territory that was lost fomr around them, or are they the first outpost
>of a possible territorial expension by the owning state?
>The ideas of geopolitik and growth of states as living objects is useful
>here. Think of enclaves as drops of mercury or water left over as a tide
>recedes, that may become part of the home state when the next wave advances.
>
>BW
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