Sovereignty

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

Moral Limit and Possibility in World Politics

Abstract: Preface 1. Moral limit and possibility in world politics Richard Price 2. Constructivism and the structure of ethical reasoning Christian Reus-Smit 3. The role of consequences, comparison and counterfactuals in constructivist ethical thought Kathryn Sikkink 4. Sovereignty, recognition and indigenous peoples Jonathan Havercroft 5. Policy hypocrisy or political compromise? Assessing the morality of US policy toward undocumented migrants Amy Gurowitz 6. Lie to me: sanctions on Iraq, moral argument and the international politics of hypocrisy Marc Lynch 7. Paradoxes in humanitarian intervention Martha Finnemore 8. Inevitable inequalities? Approaching gender equality and multiculturalism Ann Towns 9. Interstate community-building and the identity/difference predicament Bahar Rumelili 10. Progress with a price Richard Price.

Voices of the Governed: towards a theory of the translocal:

Abstract: In this article I want to interrogate the political, economic, and social conditions that enable the extraction of natural and mineral resources from Indigenous and rural communities in Africa, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific. The end of direct colonialism and the emergence of the development state did not necessarily translate into forms of local sovereignty for these communities who bore the brunt of development. I describe the emergence of resource wars in the postcolonial era and how organizational technologies of extraction, exclusion and expulsion lead to dispossession and death. I conclude by discussing possibilities of resistance and develop the notion of translocal resistance where local actors most affected by development are able to forge a series of temporary coalitions with international and national groups in an attempt to promote some form of participatory democracy. The article advance debates on postcolonialism by developing theoretical insights from translocal modes of resistance that open up new analytical spaces marked by particular configurations of market, state and civil society actors.

The Peace of Westphalia of 1648 and the Origins of Sovereignty

Abstract: (1999). The Peace of Westphalia of 1648 and the Origins of Sovereignty. The International History Review: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 569-591.

Clash of Globalizations

Abstract: What is the state of international relations today? In the 1990s, specialists concentrated on the partial disintegration of the global order’s traditional foundations: states. During that decade, many countries, often those born of decolonization, revealed themselves to be no more than pseudostates, without solid institutions, internal cohesion, or national consciousness. The end of communist coercion in the former Soviet Union and in the former Yugoslavia also revealed long-hidden ethnic tensions. Minorities that were or considered themselves oppressed demanded independence. In Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Haiti, rulers waged open warfare against their subjects. These wars increased the importance of humanitarian interventions, which came at the expense of the hallowed principles of national sovereignty and nonintervention. Thus the dominant tension of the decade was the clash between the fragmentation of states (and the state system) and the progress of economic, cultural, and political integration -in other words, globalization.

Dynamics of formal and informal institutional change in the EU

Abstract: The introductory article to this special issue pursues two main objectives, one empirical the other theoretical. First, we argue that in order to obtain more comprehensive explanation of European integration we need to make a distinction between scholarship on history-making integration – departing from the assumption that transfers of sovereignty are chiefly the result of formal inter-state bargains at treaty-amending intergovernmental conferences (ICGs) – which dominates most of the analyses on European integration, and the often-neglected sphere of interregnum integration – connoting that transfers of sovereignty result from informal bargains among EU actors in-between treaty-amending IGCs. Secondly, we seek to explore the conditions under which (informal) interregnum integration is likely to occur and how it interlinks with (formal) history-making integration. For this purpose, we develop a theoretical framework – rational choice historical institutionalism (RCHI) – and deduce a set of hypotheses abou...