Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism , edited by Arie M. Dubnov and Laura Robson. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 400 pages. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper, $30.00 e-book. Territorial partitions as a solution to nationalist problems have been a central feature of the international system since the end of World War I. Partition was proposed by the UN for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 1947, as well as by the British as they negotiated to divide India and Pakistan in that same year. For Palestinian leaders and their supporters today, partition remains the only means for establishing a viable Palestinian state which the international community endorses as legitimate and necessary for peace in the region. Concretely, though, partition has failed to deliver the end of Israeli occupation or bring about a sovereign Palestine. As Palestinians and political scientists ponder the causes of this failure, they would do well to read Arie M. Dubnov and Laurie Robson's Partitions . This edited volume provides a timely and much-needed contribution by situating partition within a rich transnational historical context to delineate its genealogy as much as its limitations. In ten chapters, written …

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分区：二十世纪领土分离主义的跨国史，由 Arie M. Dubnov 和 Laura Robson 编辑。斯坦福：斯坦福大学出版社，2019 年。400 页。布 90.00 美元，纸 30.00 美元，电子书 30.00 美元。自第一次世界大战结束以来，领土划分作为民族主义问题的解决方案一直是国际体系的一个核心特征。 划分是联合国在 1947 年提出的解决以色列 - 巴勒斯坦冲突的建议，以及英国在谈判时提出的同年分裂印度和巴基斯坦。对于今天的巴勒斯坦领导人及其支持者而言，分治仍然是建立一个可行的巴勒斯坦国的唯一手段，国际社会认为该国是该地区和平的合法和必要条件。但具体来说，分治未能结束以色列的占领或带来一个主权的巴勒斯坦。当巴勒斯坦人和政治学家思考这次失败的原因时，他们最好阅读 Arie M. Dubnov 和 Laurie Robson 的分区。这本经过编辑的卷通过将分区置于丰富的跨国历史背景中来描绘其谱系及其局限性，从而提供了及时且急需的贡献。十章，写……