Sovereignty

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

World Politics: Progress and its Limits

Abstract: Acknowledegements. Abbreviations. Prologue. Prologue. Part One: International Society. 1: Origins And Structure. 2: The Modernization Of International Society. 3: A New Solidarism?. Part Two: Sovereignty. 4: Nationalism. 5. Self--Determination. 6. Re--Appraisal. Part Three: Democracy. 7: Historical Antecedents And Cultural Preconditions. 8: International Law And The Instruments Of Foreign Policy. 9: Pluralism And Solidarism Re--Visited. Part Four: Intervention. 10: Intervention In Liberal International Theory. 11. Humanitarian Intervention In The 1990s. Epilogue. Notes. Index

Exceptionalism and the Politics of Counter-Terrorism: Liberty, Security and the War on Terror

Abstract: Introduction 1. The Liberty/Security Discourse and the Problem of the Exception 2. Freedom and Liberty in Classic Political Theory: Hobbes and Kant 3. Carl Schmitt and the Politics of the Exception 4. Giorgio Agamben's Exception: 'The Great Historico-Transcendental Destiny of the Occident' 5. Securitization Theory: Practices of Sovereign Naming 6. Foucault in Guantanamo: Towards an Archaeology of the Exception 7. The Rise and Fall of Schmitt at the Hands of Foucault and Others

The English School of International Relations: A Contemporary Reassessment

Abstract: The English School of International Relations: A Contemporary Reassessment. By Andrew Linklater and Hidemi Suganami. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 302p. $80.00 cloth, $29.99 paper. The English School, although still not mainstream, is now increasingly recognized as one of the significant approaches to the study of international relations. In their attempts to map the parameters of the field, for example, both Steven D. Krasner in Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy (1999) and Alexander Wendt in Social Theory of International Politics (1999) position the English School alongside more familiar schools of thought. There is also now a section of the International Studies Association devoted to the English School and it sponsored more than a dozen panels at the 2007 convention in Chicago. As the prominence of the English School has risen, so has the need for a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of its development and defining ideas.

The Globalization of Jurisdiction

Abstract: This Article begins by surveying the myriad ways that increasing globalization of communication, travel, and trade, and in particular the rise of the Internet, have forced judges and legal scholars to "adapt" traditional rules for legal jurisdiction to the new economic and social environment. For example, if a person posts content online that is legal where posted but illegal in some place where it is viewed, can that person be subject to suit in the far-off location? How should the International Shoe "minimum contacts" test account for online contacts? Is online activity sufficient to make one "present" in a jurisdiction for tax purposes? And on and on. Moreover, beyond the internet context, annual meetings of the world's industrialized countries have become sites for the expression of uncertainty and resentment about the effect of international trade and monetary policy on local labor forces, the environment, and national sovereignty. Similar debates recur in the context of international human rights, where, increasingly, countries are asserting extraterritorial jurisdiction to try those accused of genocide and crimes against humanity in international or foreign domestic courts. Though these issues arise in a variety of doctrinal areas and may involve a wide range of different legal and policy concerns, they all touch on the idea of legal jurisdiction, the circumstances under which a juridical body can assert authority to adjudicate or apply its legal norms to a dispute. And, in each of these cases, the question is complicated by the fact that jurisdiction may be asserted in one physical location over activities or parties located in a different physical location. This period of doctrinal flux affords us an important opportunity to think not only about adapting existing jurisdictional rules, but also about the theoretical basis for those rules. After all, conceptions about legal jurisdiction are more than simply ideas about the appropriate boundaries for state regulation or the efficient allocation of governing authority. Rather, jurisdiction is the locus for debates about community definition, sovereignty, and legitimacy. In addition, the idea of legal jurisdiction both reflects and reinforces social conceptions of space, distance, and identity. I therefore draw on work in political science, anthropology, sociology, critical geography, and cultural studies that forces us to question both whether nation-states should be the only relevant jurisdictional entities and whether strict territorial notions of jurisdiction actually fit people's lived experience of boundaries and community definition. Ultimately, I advance a "cosmopolitan pluralist" conception of jurisdiction, which aims to capture a jurisdictional middle ground between strict territorialism on the one hand and expansive universalism on the other. Such a theoretical model allows the legal definition of jurisdiction to become the rhetorical site for discussions of multiple overlapping and shifting understandings of community, and the recognition of judgments to become the terrain on which alternative conceptions of community vie for persuasive power and legitimacy. I conclude by offering examples of how this conception of jurisdiction is increasingly operating in transnational and international legal practice.