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Book
09 Sep 2013
TL;DR: Elden as mentioned in this paper examines the evolution of the concept of territory from ancient Greece to the seventeenth century to determine how we arrived at our contemporary understanding, and in doing so sheds new light on the way the world came to be ordered and how the earth's surface is divided, controlled and administered.
Abstract: Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial concepts such as sovereignty, rights, and justice. While territory continues to matter politically, and territorial disputes and arrangements are studied in detail, the concept of territory itself is often neglected today. Where did the idea of exclusive ownership of a portion of the earth's surface come from, and what kinds of complexities are hidden behind that seemingly straightforward definition? The Birth of Territory provides a detailed account of the emergence of territory within Western political thought. Looking at ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and early modern thought, Stuart Elden examines the evolution of the concept of territory from ancient Greece to the seventeenth century to determine how we arrived at our contemporary understanding. Elden addresses a range of historical, political, and literary texts and practices, as well as a number of key players - historians, poets, philosophers, theologians, and secular political theorists - and in doing so sheds new light on the way the world came to be ordered and how the earth's surface is divided, controlled, and administered.

551 citations


BookDOI
01 Mar 2013
TL;DR: The Tallinn Manual as mentioned in this paper identifies the international law applicable to cyber warfare and sets out ninety-five 'black-letter rules' governing such conflicts, addressing topics including sovereignty, State responsibility, the jus ad bellum, international humanitarian law, and the law of neutrality.
Abstract: The product of a three-year project by twenty renowned international law scholars and practitioners, the Tallinn Manual identifies the international law applicable to cyber warfare and sets out ninety-five 'black-letter rules' governing such conflicts. It addresses topics including sovereignty, State responsibility, the jus ad bellum, international humanitarian law, and the law of neutrality. An extensive commentary accompanies each rule, which sets forth the rule's basis in treaty and customary law, explains how the group of experts interpreted applicable norms in the cyber context, and outlines any disagreements within the group as to each rule's application.

337 citations


Book
05 Nov 2013
TL;DR: Barber as discussed by the authors argues that cities are the best hope in a globalizing world, and argues that city mayors, singly and jointly, are responding to transnational problems more effectively than nation-states mired in ideological infighting and sovereign rivalries.
Abstract: Can cities solve the biggest problems of the twenty-first century better than nations? Is the city democracy's best hope? In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time-climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people-the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy's best hope, today democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The answer, says Benjamin Barber in this highly provocative and original book, is yes. Cities and the mayors who run them can do and are doing a better job. Barber cites the unique qualities cities worldwide share: pragmatism, civic trust, participation, indifference to borders and sovereignty, and a democratic penchant for networking, creativity, innovation, and cooperation. He demonstrates how city mayors, singly and jointly, are responding to transnational problems more effectively than nation-states mired in ideological infighting and sovereign rivalries. Featuring profiles of a dozen mayors around the world-courageous, eccentric, or both at once-If Mayors Ruled the World presents a compelling new vision of governance for the coming century. Barber makes a persuasive case that the city is democracy's best hope in a globalizing world, and great mayors are already proving that this is so.

301 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The first of three progress reports on the subdiscipline of political geography reviews recent scholarship on the transformation of geographies of sovereignty as mentioned in this paper, including the design of spatial metaphors through which to conceptualize sovereignty, US exceptionalism and the influence of Agamben's work.
Abstract: This first of three progress reports on the subdiscipline of political geography reviews recent scholarship on the transformation of geographies of sovereignty. The piece offers a review of major analytical themes that have emerged in recent geographical analyses of sovereignty. These themes include the design of spatial metaphors through which to conceptualize sovereignty, US exceptionalism and the influence of Agamben’s work, productive blurring of onshore and offshore operations and productions of sovereign power, and debate about the kinds of power operating through these newly constituted global topographies of power. The text also visits five kinds of sites where contemporary struggles over sovereignty manifest: prison, island, sea, body, and border. After reviewing recent trends, themes, and locations in studies of sovereign power, recommendations for future research topics are made.

158 citations


BookDOI
01 Jun 2013
TL;DR: A World Not to Come focuses on how Spanish Americans in Texas used writing as a means to establish new sources of authority, and how a Latino literary and intellectual life was born in the New World as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: A shift of global proportions occurred in May 1808. Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain and deposed the Spanish king. Overnight, the Hispanic world was transformed forever. Hispanics were forced to confront modernity, and to look beyond monarchy and religion for new sources of authority. A World Not to Come focuses on how Spanish Americans in Texas used writing as a means to establish new sources of authority, and how a Latino literary and intellectual life was born in the New World. The geographic locale that became Texas changed sovereignty four times, from Spanish colony to Mexican republic to Texan republic and finally to a U.S. state. Following the trail of manifestos, correspondence, histories, petitions, and periodicals, Raul Coronado goes to the writings of Texas Mexicans to explore how they began the slow process of viewing the world as no longer being a received order but a produced order. Through reconfigured publics, they debated how best to remake the social fabric even as they were caught up in a whirlwind of wars, social upheaval, and political transformations. Yet, while imagining a new world, Texas Mexicans were undergoing a transformation from an elite community of "civilizing" conquerors to an embattled, pauperized, racialized group whose voices were annihilated by war. In the end, theirs was a world not to come. Coronado sees in this process of racialization the birth of an emergent Latino culture and literature.

156 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors point out that globalization represents the reality that the walls of sovereignty are no protection against the movements of capital, labor, information and ideas, nor can they provide effective protection against harm and damage.
Abstract: Globalization represents the reality that we live in a time when the walls of sovereignty are no protection against the movements of capital, labor, information and ideas—nor can they provide effective protection against harm and damage.1 This declaration by Judge Rosalyn Higgins, the former President of the International Court of Justice, represents the conventional wisdom about the future of global governance. Many view globalization as a reality that will erode or even eliminate the sovereignty of nation-states. The typical account points to at least three ways that globalization has affected sovereignty. First, the rise of international trade and capital markets has interfered with the ability of nation-states to control their domestic economies.2 Second, nation-states have responded by delegating authority to international organizations.3 Third, a “new” international law, generated in part by these organizations, has placed limitations on the independent conduct of domestic policies.4

136 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that criminal actors are part of a hybrid state, an emergent political formation in which multiple governmental actors are entangled in a relationship of collusion and divestment.
Abstract: In inner-city neighborhoods in Kingston, Jamaica, criminal "dons" have taken on a range of governmental functions. While such criminal actors have sometimes been imagined as heading "parallel states," I argue that they are part of a hybrid state, an emergent political formation in which multiple governmental actors—in this case, criminal organizations, politicians, police, and bureaucrats—are entangled in a relationship of collusion and divestment, sharing control over urban spaces and populations. Extending recent scholarship on variegated sovereignty and neoliberal shifts in governance, I consider the implications of this diversification of governmental actors for the ways that citizenship is experienced and enacted. The hybrid state both produces and relies on distinct political subjectivities. It is accompanied by a reconfigured, hybrid citizenship, in which multiple practices and narratives related to rule and belonging, to rights and responsibilities, are negotiated by a range of actors. - See more at: http://www.anthrosource.net/Abstract.aspx?issn=0094-0496&volume=40&issue=4&doubleissueno=0&article=339507&suppno=0&jstor=False&cyear=2013#sthash.6XmjPANm.dpuf

134 citations


Book
29 Aug 2013
TL;DR: Reus-Smit as mentioned in this paper presents a new account of how this system came to be, one in which struggles for individual rights play a central role, with individual rights deeply implicated in the making of the global sovereign order.
Abstract: We live today in the first global system of sovereign states in history, encompassing all of the world's polities, peoples, religions and civilizations. Christian Reus-Smit presents a new account of how this system came to be, one in which struggles for individual rights play a central role. The international system expanded from its original European core in five great waves, each involving the fragmentation of one or more empires into a host of successor sovereign states. In the most important, associated with the Westphalian settlement, the independence of Latin America, and post-1945 decolonization, the mobilization of new ideas about individual rights challenged imperial legitimacy, and when empires failed to recognize these new rights, subject peoples sought sovereign independence. Combining theoretical innovation with detailed historical case studies, this book advances a new understanding of human rights and world politics, with individual rights deeply implicated in the making of the global sovereign order.

116 citations


Book
25 Sep 2013
TL;DR: The Shadow of the Sovereign Economies of Power The Prince and the Population Enemy Secret Secret Orders Secular Orders Reign and Government Glorious Acclaim Conclusion as discussed by the authors The Signature of Power and the Wealth of Nations
Abstract: Introducing the Signature of Power The Shadow of the Sovereign Economies of Power The Prince and the Population Enemy Secrets Secular Orders Reign and Government Glorious Acclaim Conclusion

109 citations



Journal ArticleDOI
04 Nov 2013
TL;DR: This paper revisited a number of major themes and concepts that have been important for the development of border studies in recent years and investigated emerging research perspectives that appear to be important drivers of conceptual change from the perspective of human geography.
Abstract: The paper is based on first results of the EUBORDERSCAPES project supported by the 7th European Framework Programme and revisits a number of major themes and concepts that have been important for the development of border studies in recent years. It also investigates emerging research perspectives that appear to be important drivers of conceptual change from the perspective of human geography. The authors stress that the present state of debate indicate that contemporary border studies question the rationales behind everyday border-making by understanding borders as institutions, processes and symbols. A particular attention is paid to the process of reconfiguring state borders in terms of territorial control, security and sovereignty and to the nexus between everyday life-worlds, power relations and constructions of social borders.

BookDOI
TL;DR: In this paper, Stern and Wennerlind present an alternative to Mercantilism, called Cameralism, which is a German alternative to the traditional Hartlibian economic model.
Abstract: List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction-Philip J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind Part 1: Circulation 1. Population: Modes of Seventeenth-Century Demographic Thought, Ted McCormick 2. Labor: Employment, Colonial Servitude, and Slavery in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic, Abigail Swingen 3. Money: Hartlibian Political Economy and the New Culture of Credit, Carl Wennerlind Part 2: Knowledge 4. Epistemology: Expertise and Knowledge in the World of Commerce, Thomas Leng 5. Natural History and Improvement: The Case of Tobacco, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson 6. Cameralism: A German Alternative to Mercantilism, Andre Wakefield Part 3: Institutions 7. Corporations: Humanism and Elizabethan Political Economy, Henry S. Turner 8. Companies: Monopoly, Sovereignty, and the British East Indies, Philip J. Stern 9. The Church: Anglicanism and the Nationalization of Maritime Space, Brent S. Sirota 10. Pirates and Smugglers: Political Economy in the Red Atlantic, Niklas Frykman Part 4: Regulation 11. Polycentric States: The Spanish Reigns and the "Failures" of Mercantilism, Regina Grafe 12. Financial Markets: The Limits of Economic Regulation in Early Modern England, Anne L. Murphy 13. Consumption: Commercial Demand and the Challenges to Regulatory Power in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Martyn J. Powell Part 5: Conflict 14. War and Peace: Trade, International Competition, and Political Economy, John Shovlin 15. Neutrality: Atlantic Shipping in and after the Anglo-Dutch Wars, Victor Enthoven 16. Rivalry: Greatness in Early Modern Political Economy, Sophus A. Reinert Afterword: From Mercantilism to Macroeconomics-Craig Muldrew Index

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TL;DR: The authors explores the way that people now retell the history of earlier debates, and argues that these retellings suggest both the power and the plasticity of claims to historical knowledge, and that they reveal a profound fault line within ‘secessionist’ opinion, which separates those who claim political primacy on the basis of autochthony from those who locate their claim to independence in the language of colonial-era treaties.
Abstract: Following the elections of 2007, there was a significant increase in public expressions of secessionist feeling on the Kenya coast. During 2010 and 2011, one manifestation of this was the emergence of the Mombasa Republic Council (MRC), which demands independence for the coastal region. The language of secessionism is historical, and revisits the vivid political debates of the late 1950s and early 1960s, when politics in coastal Kenya revolved successively around two constitutional issues. The first was the possibility that the Ten-Mile Strip, nominally the sovereign territory of the Sultan of Zanzibar, might not become a part of independent Kenya; the second was the ‘regionalist’ constitution of 1963–4. This article explores the way that people now retell the history of earlier debates, and argues that these retellings suggest both the power and the plasticity of claims to historical knowledge, and that they reveal a profound fault line within ‘secessionist’ opinion, which separates those who claim political primacy on the basis of autochthony from those who locate their claim to independence in the language of colonial-era treaties. Such divisions are important, because they shape the way that secessionist arguments are framed, and the potential for secessionist politics to undermine the unity of the Kenyan state.

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TL;DR: We live in a shrinking world where interdependence between countries and communities is increasing as mentioned in this paper, and these changes also affect the concept of sovereignty, which is more analogous to owning a small apartment in one densely packed high-rise that is home to two hundred separate families.
Abstract: We live in a shrinking world where interdependence between countries and communities is increasing. These changes also affect—as they should—the concept of sovereignty. In past decades the predominant conception of sovereignty was akin to owning a large estate separated from other properties by rivers or deserts. By contrast, today’s reality is more analogous to owning a small apartment in one densely packed high-rise that is home to two hundred separate families. The sense of interdependency is heightened when we recognize the absence of any alternative to this shared home, of any exit from this global high-rise. The privilege of bygone days of opting out, of retreating into splendid isolation, of adopting mercantilist policies or erecting iron curtains is no longer realistically available.

Book
08 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the evolution of the insurgency, the descent into full-scale civil war and the implementation of the'surge' as a counterinsurgency strategy.
Abstract: Iraq recovered its full sovereignty at the end of 2011, with the departure of all US military forces. The 2003 invasion was undertaken to dismantle a regime that had long threatened its own population and regional peace, as well as to establish a stable, democratic state in the heart of the Middle East. This Adelphi looks at the legacy of that intervention and subsequent state-building efforts. It analyses the evolution of the insurgency, the descent into full-scale civil war and the implementation of the ‘surge’ as a counterinsurgency strategy. It goes on to examine US and Iraqi efforts to reconstruct the state’s military and civilian capacity. By developing a clear understanding of the current situation in Iraq, this book seeks to answer three questions that are central to the country’s future. Will it continue to suffer high levels of violence or even slide back into a vicious civil war? Will Iraq continue on a democratic path, as exemplified by the three competitive national elections held since 2005? And does the new Iraq pose a threat to its neighbours?

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TL;DR: In this article, a review employs academic and policy literature to gage the relative importance and concerns associated with the main challenges facing the management of transboundary river basins: increasing pressures; management and policy that has not kept pace with a broadened set of actors; the influence of climate change; and the politics of reconciling political borders and basin boundaries.
Abstract: This review employs academic and policy literature to gage the relative importance and concerns associated with the main challenges facing the management of transboundary river basins: increasing pressures; management and policy that has not kept pace with a broadened set of actors; the influence of climate change; and the politics of reconciling political borders and basin boundaries. The persistence of the supply-side management philosophy within current political economies is also reviewed, along with infrastructure and institutional responses to the challenges (e.g., IWRM, dams, treaties). An analytical frame developed from the review is applied to three basins where there has been successful, considerable, or no effort at transboundary basin management: the Rhine, the Nile, and the Euphrates. International politics and national self-interest are found to be the key challenge facing international basins, though each of the challenges is interconnected and should be considered in combination. If transboundary basin management is to confront the challenges successfully, it should develop along two paths: away from a supply-side management paradigm toward adaptive management, and away from sovereignty and unilateralism to multilateralism. While infrastructure built under a paradigm of reducing uncertainty is found to reduce the adaptation options set, adaptive management that can make the most of the increasingly diverse governance and confront the supply-management philosophy is seen as best-suited to meet future challenges. The disabling effect of sovereignty and international politics may best be addressed by confronting resistance of the promotion of 'shared sovereignty' and fair water-sharing.

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TL;DR: The concept of articulated sovereignty as discussed by the authors has been proposed to understand sovereignty as a heterogenous set of powers that are produced through often unequal interactions with other actors, including foreign or extra-territorial actors.

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TL;DR: In this article, a study about the linguistic landscape of Hong Kong was conducted 12 years after the People's Republic of China (PRC) reclaimed sovereignty over the city, where a total of 1160 visual signs displayed in open public spaces in four selected areas of the city were analysed.
Abstract: This study about the linguistic landscape of Hong Kong was conducted 12 years after the People's Republic of China (PRC) reclaimed sovereignty over the city. A total of 1160 visual signs displayed in open public spaces in four selected areas of Hong Kong were analysed. These sites extend from the very heart of the city to a small town near the border with the PRC. Through analysis of the assembled photographic evidence, it is able to establish baseline data that help answer three major questions namely: to what extent is Hong Kong a multilingual city; how prominent is the influence of the PRC after the change of sovereignty; and how far is the presence of minority groups represented in the linguistic landscape of Hong Kong.




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TL;DR: In the later 1940s and 1950s, British interest in creating federations, for example the Central African Federation (CAF) in 1953, offers new perspectives on the strength of imperial ideology and the determination to continue a missionary imperialism after the Second World War as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Post-1945 decolonisation involved the universal acceptance of nation-statehood as the alternative to imperialism. Nationalism vanquished its transnational competitors, notably imperialism and Marxism. Alternatives to imperial rule that avoided sovereign states on national lines, such as federations in the later 1940s and 1950s, have received less attention from historians. Federations involved alternative ways of thinking about sovereignty, territoriality, and political economy. British interest in creating federations, for example the Central African Federation (CAF) in 1953, offers some new perspectives on the strength of imperial ideology and the determination to continue a missionary imperialism after the Second World War. Federal thinking and practice was prominent at this time in other European empires too, notably the French and Dutch ones. The federal idea was also an aspect of the emerging European community. This is suggestive of a wider “federal moment” that points to the importance of linking ...

Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore some of the legal issues raised by mind-interventions outside of therapeutic contexts and argue that the law will have to recognize a basic human right: cognitive liberty or mental self-determination which guarantees an individual's sovereignty over her mind and entails the permission to both use and refuse neuroenhancements.
Abstract: This chapter explores some of the legal issues raised by mind-interventions outside of therapeutic contexts. It is argued that the law will have to recognize a basic human right: cognitive liberty or mental self-determination which guarantees an individual’s sovereignty over her mind and entails the permission to both use and refuse neuroenhancements. Not only proponents but also critics of enhancements should embrace this right as they often ground their cases against enhancement on precisely the interests it protects, even though critics do not always seem to be aware of this. The contours and limits of cognitive liberty are sketched, indicating which reasons are good (or bad) grounds for political regulations of neurotechnologies.

BookDOI
11 Apr 2013
TL;DR: In this article, Krasner discusses power, bargaining, bargaining and persuasion in the context of international trade law and international trade as a mechanism for state transformation, and states and power as Ur-Force in international relations.
Abstract: Contents Introductory Essays: Realism as an Intellectual Tradition 1 Puzzles about Power Martha Finnemore and Judith Goldstein 2 Power Politics in the Contemporary World: Lessons from the Scholarship of Stephen Krasner Martha Finnemore and Judith Goldstein 3 Stephen Krasner: Subversive Realist Robert O. Keohane Theoretical Reflections on Power, States, and Sovereignty 4 Authority, Coercion, and Power in International Relations David A. Lake 5 Governance under Limited Sovereignty Thomas Risse 6 Three Scenes of Sovereignty and Power Etel Solingen 7 States and Power as Ur-Force: Domestic Traditions and Embedded Actors in World Politics Peter J. Katzenstein State Power and the Global Economy 8 Currency and State Power Benjamin J. Cohen 9 International Trade Law as a Mechanism for State Transformation Richard H. Steinberg 10 Choice and Constraint in the Great Recession of 2008 Peter Gourevitch The Subversive Effects of Globalization 11 Power Politics and the Powerless Arthur A. Stein 12 Globalization and Openness: Would a Rational Hegemon Still Prefer Openness? Lloyd Gruber 13 The Tragedy of the Global Institutional Commons Daniel W. Drezner Parting Thoughts: Causation and Complexity 14 Causation and Responsibility in a Complex World Robert Jervis 15 Power, Bargaining, and Persuasion: Unevenly Mapped Terrain Stephen D. Krasner

01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a thorough empirical examination of how an internationalising context drives parliamentarians to engage in inter-parliamentary coordination; how it affects their power positions vis-a-vis executive actors; among themselves; and in society in general.
Abstract: Parliaments risk becoming the main losers of internationalisation; a process that privileges executives and experts. Still, parliamentarians have developed a range of responses to catch up with international decision-making: they coordinate their actions with other parliamentarians; engage in international parliamentary forums; and some even opt to pursue political careers at the supranational level, such as in the European Parliament. This volume provides a thorough empirical examination of how an internationalising context drives parliamentarians to engage in inter-parliamentary coordination; how it affects their power positions vis-a-vis executive actors; among themselves; and in society in general. Furthermore, building upon these empirical insights, the book assesses whether parliamentary democracy can remain sustainable under these changing conditions. Indeed, if parliaments are, and remain, central to our understanding of modern democracy, it is of crucial importance to track their responses to internationalisation, the fragmentation of political sovereignty, and the proliferation of multilevel politics.

Book
20 Dec 2013
TL;DR: Glanville argues that this responsibility extends back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and that states have since been accountable to God, the people, and the international community as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In 2011, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1973, authorizing its member states to take measures to protect Libyan civilians from Muammar Gadhafi's forces. In invoking the "responsibility to protect," the resolution draws on the principle that sovereign states are responsible and accountable to the international community for the protection of their populations and specifies that the international community can act to protect populations when national authorities fail to do so. The idea that sovereignty includes the responsibility to protect is often seen as a departure from the classic definition, but it actually has deep historical roots. In Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect, Luke Glanville argues that this responsibility extends back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and that states have since been accountable to God, the people, and the international community. Over time, the right to national self-governance came to take priority over the protection of individual liberties, but the noninterventionist understanding of sovereignty was only firmly established in the twentieth century, and it remained for only a few decades before it was challenged by renewed claims that sovereigns are responsible for protection. Glanville traces the relationship between sovereignty and responsibility from the early modern period to the present day, and offers a new history with profound implications for the present.

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The tension between local ownership and international self-interest was again confronted by the Somali President who wanted to assert his sovereign authority and lead the peace process according to his vision for Somalia as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: On a recent visit to Mogadishu I was again confronted with the tension between local ownership and international self-interest. On the one hand was the Somali President, who wanted to assert his sovereign authority and lead the peace process according to his vision for Somalia. On the other hand, there was a powerful but diverse international community that has the resources necessary to enhance peace, though such resources were accompanied by a set of ideas concerning what the Somali President should be doing. Officially everyone claimed to support the Federal Government of Somalia, but in reality each outside nation and organisation is engaged in Somalia for its own strategic political, security and economic needs and interests.

Journal Article
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace how an appalling episode of violence against a woman is articulated within stable categories of gender and invite state intervention in the form of criminal justice, stringent sentencing and a strengthened sexual security regime.
Abstract: In this paper, I use the recent 'Delhi rape' case that received global attention in 2012 to trace how an appalling episode of violence against a woman is articulated within stable categories of gender and invites state intervention in the form of criminal justice, stringent sentencing and a strengthened sexual security regime. I argue that the stability of gender and gender categories based on the binary of male and female has been an integral feature of international law and has been maintained partly through an overwhelming focus on sexual violence against women by states as well as non-state actors. This focus relies on a statist approach to sovereignty, where advocacy is directed at the state for redress and protection, primarily in the form of carceral measures, which in turn translate into a tightening of the sexual security regime. By continuing to appeal to the state as a central custodian of women's rights, feminist and human rights advocacy has failed to address the ways in which power is dispersed and does not operate in a top-down manner. It also operates in terms of domination, subjugation and subject constitution. I examine how a security discourse operates to regulate, discipline and manage gender in the context of three areas of international law: anti-trafficking interventions in international human rights law; wartime rape in international criminal law; and the 'taming of gender' in the context of the Security Council resolutions 1325 and 1820 on gender, peace and security.

Book
08 Apr 2013
TL;DR: The age of resistance as discussed by the authors is defined as "a crisis as spectacle" where people, multitude, crowd, and crowd are the subjects and types of resistance, and the crisis is the spectacle as spectacle.
Abstract: Prologue: The age of resistance page 1 Part I Crisis 1 The Queen s question 19 2 The biopolitics of pleasure and salvation 32 3 Anomie I: Social ethos and political cynicism 49 4 The crisis as spectacle 64 Part II Philosophy 5 Adikia: The eternal return of resistance 77 6 Anomie II: Disobedience, resistance, sovereignty 89 7 Political ontologies 107 8 People, multitude, crowd 119 Part III Resistance 9 Stasis Syntagma: The subjects and types of resistance 137 10 Demos in the square 155 11 Lessons of political strategy 176 Epilogue: The Europe to come 198 Notes 209 Index 224

Book
01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the European Court of Justice's system of rules and find that the Court consistently recognises the legitimate right of Member States to levy taxes in their national territory.
Abstract: Since 30 years, European rules have significantly impacted national taxes on the income and property of individuals and businesses. However, not legislation adopted in Brussels, but the decisions of the European Court of Justice at times reduce the national budgets of the 27 EU Member States by several billions of Euros. This dissertation analyses, using network science, the system of rules that the Court has developed. Although some regard this form of European control as an undemocratic attack on national sovereignty, this research finds that the Court consistently recognises the legitimate right of Member States to levy taxes in their national territory.