This article challenges scholarly claims that a post-national ‘cosmopolitan citizenship’ — an expanded and less territorially bounded belonging of ‘humanity’ — has been emerging in the international criminal justice context. In examining the contemporary denationalization of terrorists from the under-explored angle of criminal justice, this article argues that states’ territorial borders prevent denationalized terrorists — deemed enemies of ‘humanity’ — from being brought to justice. Some states strip citizenship from terrorists without holding them accountable for terrorist offences and international crimes, subsequently deporting them to — or leaving them stranded in — states which are, according to international criminal law, ‘unable’ or ‘unwilling’ to prosecute. As such, states’ territorial borders serve as a ‘shield’ which not only enable denationalized terrorists to avoid accountability for their terrorist offences and international crimes, but which also enable states to avoid their international obligations to bring terrorists to justice. This case study of denationalized terrorists not only demonstrates the enduring relevance of territoriality to international criminal justice but also broadly demonstrates how post-national ‘citizenship’ remains tied to the territorial state in a globalized world.

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“世界公民”、领土边界和将非国籍恐怖分子绳之以法

本文挑战了学术上的主张，即后国家的“世界公民”——一种扩展的、更少地域界限的“人类”归属——已经在国际刑事司法背景下出现。在从刑事司法的未充分探索的角度审视当代恐怖分子的非国籍化时，本文认为，国家的领土边界防止被非国籍的恐怖分子——被视为“人类”的敌人——被绳之以法。一些国家剥夺了恐怖分子的公民身份，却不追究他们对恐怖主义罪行和国际罪行的责任，随后将他们驱逐到——或让他们滞留在——根据国际刑法“不能”或“不愿意”起诉的国家。因此，国家的领土边界充当“盾牌”，不仅使被剥夺国籍的恐怖分子能够避免对其恐怖主义罪行和国际罪行追究责任，而且还使各国能够逃避将恐怖分子绳之以法的国际义务。这个关于非国家化恐怖分子的案例研究不仅证明了领土性与国际刑事司法的持久相关性，而且广泛地展示了后国家“公民身份”如何在全球化的世界中与领土国家保持联系。