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


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TL;DR: The interpretative crisis world economy technological change the security dilemma ecological crisis the new social movements current trends - future possibilities as discussed by the authors The interpretative and technological crisis in the world in theory and practice.
Abstract: World in transition sovereignty in theory and practice the interpretative crisis world economy technological change the security dilemma ecological crisis the new social movements current trends - future possibilities.

192 citations

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Michael Biggs1
TL;DR: The transformation of their world into ours, the way the state was put on the map, is the subject of this essay as discussed by the authors, and the transformation of the world into our world into their world is discussed in detail in this paper.
Abstract: Looking at any wall map or atlas, we see a world composed of states. The earth's surface is divided into distinct state territories. Each is demarcated by a linear boundary, an edge dividing one sovereignty from the next. The division is accentuated when each territory is blocked out in a separate color from neighboring states, implying that its interior is a homogeneous space, traversed evenly by state sovereignty. Our world is a jigsaw of territorial states, and we take this picture for granted. Thus our historical atlases show medieval Christendom also divided into demarcated and homogeneous territories, though perhaps less neatly (see, for example, McEvedy 1992). Only the configuration is different. Familiar to us, such a depiction would have been utterly unknown to people at the time, who rarely used maps to represent geographical information and did not imagine states (or rather realms) as enclosed spaces. The transformation of their world into ours—the way the state was put on the map—is the subject of this essay.

192 citations

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01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: Peirce as discussed by the authors examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries, which ranged from loyal devotion to armed opposition, and demonstrates that female power was a logical, indeed an intended consequence of political structures.
Abstract: The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries, which ranged from loyal devotion to armed opposition. By examining political action in the context of household networks, Leslie Peirce demonstrates that female power was a logical, indeed an intended, consequence of political structures. Royal women were custodians of sovereign power, training their sons in its use and exercising it directly as regents when necessary. Furthermore, they played central roles in the public culture of sovereignty-royal ceremonial, monumental building, and patronage of artistic production. The Imperial Harem argues that the exercise of political power was tied to definitions of sexuality. Within the dynasty, the hierarchy of female power, like the hierarchy of male power, reflected the broader society's concern for social control of the sexually active.

192 citations

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Jarat Chopra1
TL;DR: In practice, however, the intervention failed to decentralize its own absolutist form of authority, but succeeded in excluding the local population from the equation as mentioned in this paper, which was the rationale behind the most total form of international administration in East Timor.
Abstract: East Timor is the newest state of the twenty–first century. Yet its human development indicators compare with the most severely collapsed states in the world. Two and a half years of international administration by the United Nations seems to have had little effect on a social and political reality that has evolved by itself. In effect, the UN has given birth to a failed state. The purpose of governorship types of intervention — which attempt to (re)build governments that have collapsed or states that have failed — was to take control of a local political process and break with an abusive past. This aim was the rationale behind the most total form of international administration — UN statehood and international sovereignty in East Timor. In practice, however, the intervention failed to decentralize its own absolutist form of authority, but succeeded in excluding the local population from the equation. If there is to be any future for interventions that are both effective and legitimate, then they will need to guarantee much greater and genuine integration of the local population. ‘Participatory intervention’ is the next doctrinal puzzle to solve in the evolution of international state–building enterprises of any brand.

192 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explain the particular achievement of the national state and the tension between republicanism and nationalism built into it, and the challenges that arise from the multicultural differentiation of civil society and from trends towards globalization throw light on the limitations of this historical type.
Abstract: . The “global success” of nation states is currently brought into play by the new requirements of multicultural differentiation and globalization. After commenting on the common concepts of “state” and “nation” and discussing the formation of nation states, the author explains the particular achievement of the national state and the tension between republicanism and nationalism built into it. The challenges that arise from the multicultural differentiation of civil society and from trends towards globalization throw light on the limitations of this historical type.

191 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20241
20231,775
20223,691
2021802
20201,086
20191,042