Sovereignty

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Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the Twenty-First Century

Abstract: Acknowledgements List of figures Prologue I THE POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF THE PRESENT 1. Sovereignty and control reconsidered 2. Escape! II A CONTEMPORARY ITINERARY OF ESCAPE 3. Life and experience 4. Mobility and migration 5. Labour and precarity References Index

The Enduring Place of Hierarchy in World Politics: Tracing the Social Logics of Hierarchy and Political Change:

Abstract: Conventional wisdom maintains that since 1648 the international system has comprised states-as-like units endowed with Westphalian sovereignty under anarchy. And while radical globalization theorists certainly dispute the centrality of the state in modern world politics, nevertheless most assume that the state retains its sovereignty under globalization. In contrast we argue that hierarchical sub-systems (and hence unlike units) have been common since 1648, and that the international system continues to be characterized by hierarchical (as well as anarchic) relations. The article goes on to reveal the existence of these multiple hierarchic formations and uncovers the differing social logics connected with identity-formation processes that govern their reproduction. Successive religious, racial, socialist and democratic social logics not only constitute their reproduction, but the emergence of new norms, social ideas and identities have to an important extent accounted for the rise and decay of successive ...

The idea of Europe from antiquity to the European Union

Abstract: Part I: Introduction Anthony Pagden 1. Europe: conceptualising a continent Anthony Pagden 2. Some Europes in their History J. G. A. Pocock 3. 'Europe' in the Middle Ages William Chester Jordan 4. The Republican mirror: the Dutch idea of Europe Hans Blom 5. The Napoleonic Empire and the Europe of nations Biancamaria Fontana 6. Homo politicus and homo oeconomicus: the European citizen according to Max Weber Wilfried Nippel Part II: 7. The European self rethinking an attitude Michael Herzfeld 8. European Nationalism and European Union Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia 9. From the ironies of identity to the identity of ironies Luisa Passerini 10. Muslims and European identity: can Europe represent Islam? Talal Asad 11. The long road to unity: the contribution of law to the process of European integration, 1945-1995 Philip Ruttley 12. The Euro, economic federalism and the question of national sovereignty Elie Cohen 13. Identity politics and European integration: the case of Germany Thomas Risse and Daniela Engelmann-Martin 14. Nationalism in Spain: the organization of Convivencia Andres de Blas Guerrero 15. The Kantian idea of Europe: critical and cosmopolitan perspectives James Tully.

Naming the Enemy : Anti-corporate movements confront globalization

Abstract: * Introduction * 1. Structure and Anti-Structure in the Face of Globalization * 2. Contestation and Reform * 3. Globalization from Below * 4. Delinking, Relocalization and Sovereignty * 5. PopCulture versus AgriCulture & Other Reflections on the Anti-Corporate Movement * A Partial List of Organizations * Sources * Index