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Sovereignty
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09 Sep 2004
TL;DR: The authors revisited the politics of international recognition and the quest for sovereignty in the 1990s, focusing on the case of Kosovo and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus under Turkey's Wings.
Abstract: 1. Introduction: The Quest for Sovereignty 2. Political Realities and Legal Anomalies: Revisiting the Politics of International Recognition 3. Can Clans Form Nations?: Somaliland in the Making 4. Bougainville: The Quest for Self-Determination 5. Sovereign Law vs Sovereign Nation: The Case of Kosovo 6. Montenegro and Serbia: Disassociation, Negotiation, Resolution? 7. Chechnya 8. From Frozen Conflict to Frozen Agreement: The Unrecognized State of Transnistria 9. Palestine 2003: The Perils of De Facto Statehood 10. The Abkhazians: A National Minority in their Own Homeland 11. Republika Srpska 12. The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus: Striving for International Acceptance under Turkey's Wings 13. Conclusion: States in Waiting, Nations Tired of Waiting
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26 Feb 1988
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the evolution of democracy in the Athenian polis and the privileges and the opportunities of the citizen, including the hazards of leadership, and the rewards of leadership.
Abstract: Preface Maps 1. The Athenian polis and the evolution of democracy 2. The privileges and the opportunities of the citizen 3. The responsibilities of the citizen 4. The sovereignty of the Demos, officials and the Council 5. Citizens and participation 6. The hazards of leadership 7. The rewards of leadership 8. The critics of Athenian democracy Appendices Bibliography Index.
148 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnographic and theoretical exploration of shadow networks of goods, services, people and exchanges that flow outside formal and legal state channels and international laws is presented, and it is shown these are more formalized, integrated and rule-bound than traditional studies have suggested.
Abstract: This is an ethnographic and theoretical exploration of the `shadows': vast transnational networks of goods, services, people and exchanges that flow outside formal and legal state channels and international laws. These networks involve millions of people and more than a trillion dollars yearly worldwide, and my research demonstrates these are more formalized, integrated and rule-bound than traditional studies have suggested. Thus, `shadow' networks broker political, economic and social power that can rival many of the world's states, and they are profoundly implicated in world markets. This article explores core characteristics and cultures defining extant extra-state systems, and the power and potentialities for social sovereignty they wield. Investigation into shadow realities prompts a reassessment of the basic theoretical ideas concerning the nexus of legality/illegality, state/non-state and formal/non-formal power relations defining the world today.
148 citations
TL;DR: In this article, international constitutionalism is defined as a legal argument which recommends and strengthens efforts (legal and political) to compensate for ongoing de-constitutionalization on the domestic level.
Abstract: The article conceives international (or global) constitutionalism as a legal argument which recommends and strengthens efforts (legal and political) to compensate for ongoing de-constitutionalization on the domestic level. Although the notions ‘international constitution’ and ‘international constitutionalism’ have in recent years served as buzzwords in various discourses, the many meanings of those concepts have not yet been fully explored and disentangled. This paper suggests a specific understanding of those concepts. It highlights various aspects and elements of micro- and macro-constitutionalization in international law, and identifies anti-constitutionalist trends. On this basis, the paper finds that, although no international constitution in a formal sense exists, fundamental norms in the international legal order do fulfil constitutional functions. Because those norms can reasonably be qualified as having a constitutional quality, they may not be summarily discarded in the event of a conflict with domestic constitutional law. Because the relevant norms form a transnational constitutional network, and cannot be aligned in an abstract hierarchy, conflict resolution requires a balancing of interests in concrete cases. Finally, because constitutionalism historically and prescriptively means asking for a legitimate constitution, a constitutionalist reading of the international legal order provokes the question of its legitimacy. This question is pressing, because state sovereignty and consent are – on good grounds – no longer accepted as the sole source of legitimacy of international law. International constitutionalism – as understood in this paper – does not ask for state-like forms of legitimacy of a world government, but stimulates the search for new mechanisms to strengthen the legitimacy of global governance.
148 citations
TL;DR: In this article, four propositions from the theoretical literature are used to provide a toolkit to analyse the practical negotiation of scalar politics, namely that scales should be considered as effects, not frames or structures, of practice; networks must be considered in all their complexity and heterogeneity; networks can be interpreted as assemblages, the more re-territorialising and re-scaling of which can be analysed as apparatuses; and that state agencies work to create the impression that scales are ahistorical, hierarchical and possess exclusive relationships.
Abstract: Whilst greatly valuing recent critiques of the vertical imaginary and reified ontology of scale theory, and of the unfettered flows of network theory, this paper argues against a human geography without scale. Rather, four propositions from the theoretical literature are used to provide a tool-kit to analyse the practical negotiation of scalar politics, namely that: scales should be considered as effects, not frames or structures, of practice; networks must be considered in all their complexity and heterogeneity; networks can be interpreted as assemblages, the more re-territorialising and re-scaling of which can be analysed as apparatuses; and that state apparatuses work to create the impression that scales are ahistorical, hierarchical and possess exclusive relationships. These propositions are used to explore a period of history when the scalar constitution of the world was under intense debate. The interwar era saw the imperial scale clash with that of the international, both as ideological worldviews, and as a series of interacting institutions. The assemblages of internationalism and imperialism were embodied by apparatuses such as the League of Nations and the colonial Government of India respectively. Attempts by the League to encourage the abolition of tolerated brothels in an attempt to reduce the trafficking of women and children led to intense debates between the 1920s and 1930s over what constituted the legitimate domains of the international and the ‘domestic’. These explicitly scalar debates were the product of League networks that threatened the scalar sovereignty of the Raj, most directly through the travelling Commission of Enquiry into Traffic in Women and Children in the East in 1931.
147 citations