Sovereignty

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

The Pussy Riot affair and Putin's démarche from sovereign democracy to sovereign morality

Abstract: This essay brings attention to the recent discursive turn in Russian politics that is reflected in the Kremlin's turn to issues of traditional values and morality. Expressed in Russia's domestic and foreign policies, this new “morality politics” is dated by the Pussy Riot trial in 2012 that the Kremlin used to advance its new discursive frame in the public sphere. Although not entirely new in its orientation, this new stage of “morality politics” differs from the earlier policy initiatives in its intensity, scope and political significance for the regime. The moralizing stance taken by the regime is accompanied by a divide and rule political tactic, whereby the establishment has tried to marginalize the protesters from the rest of the Russian public that the regime is attempting to reconsolidate based on traditional, conservative values. The essay interprets this recent morality turn as a strategy selected by the Kremlin to restore the regime's legitimacy that has been shaken by the protests of 2011–2012 ...

Contested sovereignties: Indigenous law, violence and state effects in postwar Guatemala

Abstract: This article analyzes the efforts of organized indigenous peoples to exercise their own forms of law and justice within the context of social violence and impunity that char- acterizes postwar Guatemala. Through an ethnographic exploration of alternative jus- tice practices in the region of Santa Cruz del Quiche ´, it aims to contribute to discussions around the 'anthropology of the state'. Specifically, the article describes some of the different phenomena or social forces that compete to exercise sovereignty in the region and reflects on what these reveal about the nature of the contemporary state in Guatemala.

American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice

Abstract: * Preface * Acknowledgments * Chapter 1. Legal Masks, Legal Consciousness * Chapter 2. The Era of Defining Tribes, Their Lands, and Their Sovereignty * Chapter 3. The Era of Congressional Ascendancy over Tribes: 1886-1903 * Chapter 4. The Era of "Myths": Citizenship, Nomadism, and Moral Progress * Chapter 5. The Era of Judicial Backlash and Land Claims * Chapter 6. The Era of the Imperial Judiciary * Chapter 7. Removing the Masks * Appendix A. Cases Cited * Appendix B. Supreme Court Justices Authoring the Fifteen Opinions Analyzed * Notes * Glossary * References * Index

The political economy of state failure

Abstract: Rapid decolonization created many arbitrary countries. In contrast to those states which had emerged through a quasi-Darwinian process of selection, some of these new countries had structural characteristics which gravely impeded the provision of public goods. Their lack of a unifying sense of shared identity made cooperation difficult, and their tiny economic size left them unable to reap scale economies. Two public goods, security and accountability, are particularly important for development and so, where they could not be provided, states failed. The cause of a problem is not necessarily a guide to its solution: Darwinian struggle among failing states is not something to be encouraged. Solutions lie partly in a phase of international provision of the key public goods, partly in enhanced regional pooling of sovereignty, and partly in institutional innovation to make the domestic provision of public goods less demanding of the state. Copyright 2009, Oxford University Press.