Sovereignty

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

The Boundaries of Welfare: European Integration and the New Spatial Politics of Social Protection

Abstract: To what extent has the process of European integration re-drawn the boundaries of national welfare states? What are the effects of such re-drawing? Boundaries count: they are essential in bringing together individuals, groups, and territorial units, and for activating or strengthening shared ties between them. If the profile of boundaries changes over time, we might expect significant consequences on bonding dynamics, i.e. on the way solidarity is structured in a given political community. The book addresses these two questions in a broad historical and comparative perspective. The first chapter sets out a novel theoretical framework which re-conceptualizes the welfare state as a 'bounded space' characterized by a distinct spatial politics. This reconceptualization takes as a starting point the 'state-building tradition' in political science and in particular the work of Stein Rokkan. The second chapter briefly outlines the early emergence and expansion of European welfare states till World War II. Chapters 3 and 4 analyse the relationship between domestic welfare state developments and the formation of a supranational European Community between the 1960s and the 2000s, illustrating how the process of European integration has increasingly eroded the social sovereignty of the nation-state. Chapter 5 focuses on new emerging forms of sub-national and trans-national social protection, while Chapter 6 discusses current trends and future perspectives for a re-structuring of social protection at the EU level. While there is no doubt that European integration has significantly altered the boundaries of national welfare, de-stabilizing delicate political and institutional equilibria, the book concludes by offering some suggestions on how a viable system of multi-level social protection could possibly emerge within the new EU wide boundary configuration.

State sovereignty as social construct

Abstract: 1. The social construction of state sovereignty Thomas J. Biersteker and Cynthia Weber 2. Contested sovereignty: the social construction of colonial imperialism David Strang 3. Beyond the sovereignty dilemma: quasi-states as social construct Naeem Inayatullah 4. The sovereign state system as political-territorial ideal: historical and contemporary considerations Alexander Murphy 5. Sovereignty and the nation: constructing the boundaries of national identity Roxanne Lynn Doty 6. Sovereignty, nationalism and regional order in the Arab states system Michael Barnett 7. Popular sovereigns, bound states: the practices, structures and geopolitics of Philadelphian systems Daniel Deudney 8. Hierarchy under anarchy: informal empire and the East German state Alexander Wendt and Daniel Friedheim 9. Reconstructing the analysis of sovereignty concluding reflections and directions for future research Cynthia Weber and Thomas J. Biersteker.

The geography of money

Abstract: The traditional assumption holds that the territory of money coincides precisely with the political frontiers of each nation state: France has the franc, the United Kingdom has the pound, the United States has the dollar. But the disparity between that simple mental landscape and the actual organization of currency spaces has grown in recent years, as territorial boundaries of individual states limit currency circulation less and less. Many currencies are used outside their "home" country for transactions either between nations or within foreign states. In this book, Benjamin J. Cohen asks what this new geography of money reveals about financial and political power. Cohen shows how recent changes in the geography of money challenge state sovereignty. He examines the role of money and the scope of cross-border currency competition in today's world. Drawing on new work in geography and network theory to explain the new spatial organization of monetary relations, Cohen suggests that international relations, political as well as economic, are being dramatically reshaped by the increasing interpenetration of national monetary spaces. This process, he explains, generates tensions and insecurities as well as opportunities for cooperation.

Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought

Abstract: Chapter 1 Mapping the Terrain of Struggle: From Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance to Red Power and Red Pedagogy Chapter 2 Competing Moral Visions: At the Crossroads of Democracy and Sovereignty Chapter 3 Red Land, White Power Chapter 4 American Indian Geographies of Identity and Power Chapter 5 Whitestream Feminism and the Colonialist Project: Toward a Theory of Indigenista Chapter 6 Better Red than Dead: Toward a Nation-Peoples and a Peoples Nation

Counter-Democracy: Politics in an Age of Distrust

Abstract: Preface Introduction Part I. Overseeing Democracy: 1. Vigilance, denunciation, evaluation 2. The overseers 3. The thread of history 4. Legitimacy conflicts Part II. The Sovereignty of Prevention: 5. From the right of resistance to complex sovereignty 6. Self-critical democracies 7. Negative politics Part III. The People as Judge: 8. Historical references 9. Almost legislators 10. The preference for judgement Part IV. Unpolitical Democracy: 11. The sense of powerlessness and symbols of depoliticization 12. The populist temptation 13. Lessons of unpolitical economy 14. Conclusion: the modern mixed regime.