Exclusive territorial national jurisdictions are a recent twentieth-century invention

Evidence

Historically, however, regime boundaries have typically blurred, jurisdictions have overlapped, and governments have also exercised nonterritorial forms of jurisdiction. Most of the world only mapped into mutually exclusive territorial jurisdictions identified with autonomous national governments during the twentieth century. Even today, citizens of one country commonly enjoy special rights when they travel in another country’s territory. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 191

Categorization

  • QUESTION: If contentious subscribers can be governed nonterritorially, could a subordinate group be subject to one regime’s institutional absorption (e.g., religious exemptions, rights law) while residing under another territorial state — complicating Tilly’s regime-type matrix?
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 191
  • XREF: connects to: Europe as an active boundary concept dates mainly to the twentieth century — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 175; Medieval overlapping jurisdictions hold ontological priority over modern simple space — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 869; Unbounded expansion arose inside boundary-defined nation-states — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 358 (+3 more)

Broader Connections