Sovereignty

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

The Cost of Commitment

Abstract: INTRODUCTION 1 I. EXISTING WORK ON THE COST OF COMMITTING TO HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES 4 A. The Sovereignty View: The Cost of Commitment Is Uniform 6 B. The Rationalist View: The Cost of Commitment Depends on the Cost of Compliance 8 C. A Normative View: The Cost of Commitment Is Less Important than Norms.. 10 II. THE COST OF COMMITMENT 13 III. THE EVIDENCE: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT 20 A. Aggregate Evidence 21 B. Commitment Patterns of Democratic and Nondemocratic Nations...... 26 1. Nondemocratic nations 29 2. Democratic nations. 30 CONCLUSION 32 APPENDIX A: LIST OF TREATIES 35 APPENDIX B: DATA SOURCES AND DESCRIPTIONS 36

Aboriginal Societies and the Common Law: A History of Sovereignty, Status, and Self-determination

Abstract: 1. Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: The juridical status of non-Christian polities (to the end of the eighteenth century) Chapter Three: Aboriginal sovereignty and status in the 'Empire(s) of Uniformity' Chapter Four: A history of aboriginal status - the legal recognition of the individual and the group Chapter 5: aboriginal societies and international law: a history of sovereignty, status and land Chapter 6: An overview of the era of aboriginal self-determination Chapter 7: Achieving recognition during the 1970s and '80s- foundations for a modern jurisprudence Chapter 8: Moving beyond recognition: aboriginal governance in the turbulent 1990s Chapter 9: Living Together Less Contentiously: the Jurisprucence of Reconciliation in the 1990s

On the Road to Normal: Negotiating Agency and State Sovereignty in Postsocialist Serbia

Abstract: I examine how perceptions of state crisis and moral decay in Serbia (after the breakup of Yugoslavia) impact people's belief that they are no longer normal agents capable of effective action. More specifically, I argue that a shift in Serbia's geopolitical position and changing dynamics at international borders reveal the intimate links between people's self-conception as moral, agentive subjects and the conditions that structure state power. Discourses of normalcy are about the loss (and possible restoration) of a historically specific form of citizen agency that emerged in relationship to a functioning, sovereign, and internationally respected socialist Yugoslav state. I focus on young people's intimate experiences and narratives of everyday life and leisure. In exploring the intersection of forms of state sovereignty and the experience of citizen agency, I illuminate how young Serbian citizens experience changing configurations of state power as enabling conditions for their own moral and agentive capacities.

Peoples, Territorialism and Boundaries

Abstract: Territorial change is often a painful process. It impacts not only upon the international community and the states concerned, both old and new, but also upon the individuals and groups that inhabit the areas involved. This is especially so where an existing independent state is dismantled in whole or in part How such interests may be acceptably accommodated within the framework of international law is a crucial question in an era of rapid and dramatic international political change. The major elements to be considered in situations of change of sovereignty include, apart from human rights generally, the rights of self-determination and of groups, and the law relating to territory. The latter would embrace the rules governing the acquisition of title and the principles of stability of boundaries and territorial integrity. In particular, the problem is raised of the legal basis of the transformation of internal or administrative borders into international boundaries upon independence in the light of territorial and human rights concerns.

Constructing Global Order: Agency and Change in World Politics

Abstract: For a long time, international relations scholars have adopted a narrow view of what is global order, who are its makers and managers, and what means they employ to realize their goals. Amitav Acharya argues that the nature and scope of agency in the global order - who creates it and how - needs to be redefined and broadened. Order is built not by material power alone, but also by ideas and norms. While the West designed the post-war order, the non-Western countries were not passive. They contested and redefined Western ideas and norms, and contributed new ones of their own making. This book examines such acts of agency, especially the redefinitions of sovereignty and security, shaping contemporary world politics. With the decline of Western dominance, ideas and agency from the Rest may make it possible to imagine and build a truly global order.