ABSTRAKThis article would follows the history of the concept of territoriality as described by Schmitt and
Kant which place the appearance of territorial attachment to a context. The author wants to point
out the problems that arise when the territory is taken from that context and adopted in a
globalized world which has a different context. Taking territory as the undeniable norm of a
modern state contributes to create some latent problems: ethnic or religious identity issues that
need to subject to national identity, inability to deal with non-territorial political entities, and
inability to imagine effective ways to mobilize effective authority regardless of material capacity.
This article concludes with a suggestion to reopen the discussion about the importance of
territoriality for a country and whether the concept can still serve as an assumption of state
security and unity
