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Sovereignty
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the evolution of international relations in the late Middle Ages, focusing on the emergence of new modes of non-territorial organization, including Feudalism, the Church and the Holy Roman Empire.
Abstract: List of Maps and TablesPrefaceIntroduction3Pt. IContingency, Choice, and Constraint9Ch. 1Structural Change in International Relations11Ch. 2Organizational Variation and Selection in the International System22Ch. 3Modes of Nonterritorial Organization: Feudalism, the Church, and the Holy Roman Empire34Pt. IIThe Emergence of New Modes of Organization59Ch. 4The Economic Renaissance of the Late Middle Ages61Ch. 5The Rise of the Sovereign, Territorial State in Capetian France77Ch. 6The Fragmentation of the German Empire and the Rise of the Hanseatic League109Ch. 7The Development of the Italian City-states130Pt. IIICompetition, Mutual Empowerment, and Choice: The Advantages of Sovereign Territoriality151Ch. 8The Victory of the Sovereign State153Pt. IVConclusion181Ch. 9Character, Tempo, and Prospects for Change in the International System183Notes195Bibliography265Index285
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TL;DR: The state as a space: Territoriality and the formation of the state in Ecuador as discussed by the authors The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A technique of nation-state formation Lars Buur Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen Reconstructing national identity and renegotiating memory: The work of the TRC Aletta Norval University of Essex Rethinking citizenship: Reforming the law in post-war Guatemala Rachel Sieder Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London Governance and state mythologies in Mumbai Thomas Blom Hansen University of Edinburgh III State and community Before
Abstract: Contents: States of imagination Thomas Blom Hansen University of Edinburgh and Finn Stepputat Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen I State as governance "Demonic societies": Liberalism, bio-politics and sovereignty Mitchell Dean Macquarie University Governing population: The integrated child development services program in Indian Akhil Gupta Stanford University The battlefield and the prize: ANC's bid to reform the South African state Steffen Jensen Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen Imagining the state as a space: Territoriality and the formation of the state in Ecuador Sarah Radcliffe Univesity of Cambridge II State as justice The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A technique of nation-state formation Lars Buur Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen Reconstructing national identity and renegotiating memory: The work of the TRC Aletta Norval University of Essex Rethinking citizenship: Reforming the law in post-war Guatemala Rachel Sieder Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London Governance and state mythologies in Mumbai Thomas Blom Hansen University of Edinburgh III State and community Before history and prior to politics: Time, space and territory in the modern Peruvian nation state David Nugent Colby College Urbanizing the countryside: Armed conflict, state formation and the politics of place in contemporary Guatemala Finn Stepputat Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen In the name of the state? Schools and teachers in an Andean province Fiona Wilson Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen The captive state: Corruption, intelligence agencies and ethnicity in Pakistan Oskar Verkaaik Vrije University, Amsterdam Public secrets, conscious amnesia and the celebration of autonomy for Ladakh Martijn van Beek Aarhus University
638 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the emphasis shifts from fixed forms of sovereignty and its denials to gradated forms of sovereignity and what has long marked the technologies of imperial rule: sliding and contested scales of differential rights.
Abstract: In this article, I look at “imperial formations” rather than at empire per se to register the ongoing quality of processes of decimation, displacement, and reclamation. Imperial formations are relations of force, harboring political forms that endure beyond the formal exclusions that legislate against equal opportunity, commensurate dignities, and equal rights. Working with the concept of imperial formation, rather than empire per se, the emphasis shifts from fixed forms of sovereignty and its denials to gradated forms of sovereignty and what has long marked the technologies of imperial rule—sliding and contested scales of differential rights. Imperial formations are defined by racialized relations of allocations and appropriations. Unlike empires, they are processes of becoming, not fixed things. Not least they are states of deferral that mete out promissory notes that are not exceptions to their operation but constitutive of them: imperial guardianship, trusteeships, delayed autonomy, temporary intervention, conditional tutelage, military takeover in the name of humanitarian works, violent intervention in the name of human rights, and security measures in the name of peace.
626 citations
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01 Jul 1993
TL;DR: The authors argue that threats to ethno-national identity are replacing military concerns as the central focus of European insecurity and the interplay of these societal insecurities in West and East will determine both the political shape and stability of Europe for the next generation as well as the future of Europes relations with its Islamic periphery.
Abstract: This book argues that threats to ethno-national identity are replacing military concerns as the central focus of European insecurity. In Western Europe societal insecurity has replaced state sovereignty as the key to success or failure of European integration pushing concerns about identity and migration to the top of the political agenda and profoundly dividing peoples from their leaderships. In the East national identity has become the mainspring of post-Soviet political reorganisation raising a host of boundary and minority problems. The interplay of these societal insecurities in West and East will determine both the political shape and stability of Europe for the next generation as well as the future of Europes relations with its Islamic periphery. (EXCERPT)
597 citations
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12 Jan 1996
TL;DR: The Supreme Exercise of Power: Lukes and Critical Theory as discussed by the authors, which is the basis for this paper, is a good starting point for a discussion of the relationship between power, government and domination.
Abstract: Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. That Mortal God: Hobbes on Power and the Sovereign. 3. A Right of Making Laws: Locke on Political Power and Morality. 4. The Supreme Exercise of Power: Lukes and Critical Theory. 5. Discipline and Cherish: Foucault on Power, Government and Domination. 6. Conclusion. Notes. References. Index.
593 citations