Sovereignty

About: Sovereignty is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 25909 publications have been published within this topic receiving 410148 citations.

Cultures of Border Control: Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers

Abstract: In recent years, a number of European countries have abolished national border controls in favor of Europe's external frontiers In doing so, they challenged long-established conceptions of sovereignty, territoriality, and security in world affairs Setting forth a new analytic framework informed by constructivism and pragmatism, Ruben Zaiotti traces the transformation of underlying assumptions and cultural practices guiding European policymakers and postnational Europe, shedding light on current trends characterizing its politics and relations with others This book also includes a fascinating comparison to developments in North America, where the United States has pursued more restrictive border control strategies since 9/11 As a broad survey of the origins, evolution, and implications of this remarkable development in European integration, "Cultures of Border Control" will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations and political geography

Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy

Abstract: The author of Jihad vs. McWorld analyzes how American foreign policy has gone wrongand how it could go right. In this hard-hitting but pragmatic new critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy, Benjamin R. Barber exposes in detail the folly of an agenda of preventive war, placing it in the context of two hundred years of American strategic doctrine (including the recent history of deterrence and containment). He shows how chosen "rogue states" have been made to stand in for terrorists too difficult to locate and destroy, and how the United States continues to support dictatorship in nations it regards as friends, while still believing we can impose democracy on vanquished enemies at the barrel of a gun. Barber argues for an America that promotes cooperation, multilateralism, international law, and pooled sovereignty. For as law and citizenship alone secure liberty within nations, law and citizenship alone can secure liberty among them, freeing them from fear.

The Right of Self-Determination of Peoples: The Domestication of an Illusion

Abstract: The right of self-determination of peoples holds out the promise of sovereign statehood for all peoples and a domination-free international order. But it also harbors the danger of state fragmentation that can threaten international stability if claims of self-determination lead to secessions. Covering both the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century independence movements in the Americas and the twentieth-century decolonization worldwide, this book examines the conceptual and political history of the right of self-determination of peoples. It addresses the political contexts in which the right and concept were formulated and the practices developed to restrain its potentially anarchic character, its inception in anti-colonialism, nationalism, and the labor movement, its instrumentalization at the end of the First World War in a formidable duel that Wilson lost to Lenin, its abuse by Hitler, the path after the Second World War to its recognition as a human right in 1966, and its continuing impact after decolonization.

The Twilight of Constitutionalism

Abstract: INTRODUCTION PART I: CONSTITUTIONALISM AND THE EROSION OF STATEHOOD 1. The Achievement of Constitutionalism and its Prospects in a Changed World 2. Disconnecting Constitutions from Statehood: Is Global Constitutionalism a Viable Concept? 3. What is Constitutionalisation? PART II: THE QUESTION OF EUROPE 4. European Governance: Governing with or without the State? 5. Legitimacy in the Multi-level European Polity 6. Constitutionalism and Representation: European Parliamentarism in the Treaty of Lisbon PART III: CONSTITUTIONALISM WITHOUT DEMOCRACY? 7. More Law, Less Democracy? Democracy and Transnational Constitutionalism 8. On Constitutional Membership 9. Constitutionalism and Democracy in the World Society PART IV: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW 10. The Best of Times and the Worst of Times: Between Constitutional Triumphalism and Nostalgia 11. In Defence of 'Constitution' PART V: GLOBAL ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: A VIABLE SUBSTITUTE? 12. Global Administrative Law and the Constitutional Ambition 13. Administration without Sovereignty PART VI: THE EMERGENCE OF SOCIETAL CONSTITUTIONALISM 14. Beyond the Holistic Constitution? 15. The Morphogenesis of Constitutionalism 16. Fragmented Foundations: Societal Constitutionalism beyond the Nation State

Introduction to Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations

Abstract: The European Union, the world's foremost trader, is not an easy bargainer to deal with. Its twenty-five member states have relinquished most of their sovereignty in trade to the supranational level, and in international commercial negotiations, such as those conducted under the World Trade Organization, the EU speaks with a "single voice." This single voice has enabled the Brussels-based institution to impact the distributional outcomes of international trade negotiations and shape the global political economy. Trading Voices is the most comprehensive book about the politics of trade policy in the EU and the role of the EU as a central actor in international commercial negotiations. Sophie Meunier explores how this pooling of trade policy-making and external representation affects the EU's bargaining power in international trade talks. Using institutionalist analysis, she argues that its complex institutional procedures and multiple masters have, more than once, forced its trade partners to give in to an EU speaking with a single voice. Through analysis of four transatlantic commercial negotiations over agriculture, public procurement, and civil aviation, Trading Voices explores the politics of international trade bargaining. It also addresses the salient political question of whether efficiency at negotiating comes at the expense of democratic legitimacy. Finally, this book looks at how the EU, with its recent enlargement and proposed constitution, might become an even more formidable rival to the United States in shaping globalization.