Our Research Programme Manager, Kim Angell, has written a new paper on cities and border control. In short, the message is that cities may have a self-determination based right to protect an additional quota of vulnerable people on the move, over and above those protected by the encompassing state. This result is surprising because the appeal to the value of self-determination is typically used by states to justify a right to close their borders. 

 

The paper is now available in Early View online in the American Journal of Political Science. We hope you will check it out here.

 

For those of you who do not have access, please let us know, and Kim will be happy to send you a copy via email.