Sovereignty

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

Hanging Together: Cooperation and Conflict in the Seven-Power Summits

Abstract: For nearly a decade the leaders of the seven major industrial countries the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, and Canada have met annually to discuss international economic and political issues. Regular summitry of this sort is virtually unprecedented in modern diplomacy. Proponents see the Western summits as providing collective leadership that is vital in a turbulent world, while critics dismiss summitry as distracting and even damaging to political and economic stability."Hanging Together" charts the modern dilemma between economic interdependence and national sovereignty. It assesses the history, decisions, successes, and failures of the seven-power summits from Rambouillet in 1975 to the 1983 meeting at Williamsburg, and looks forward to the 1984 summit in London. The authors show how the growing importance of international commerce and finance has caused national and international politics to become entangled, and how national borders have become more permeable. Born in an era of waning American hegemony, the summits reveal the tension between American leadership and collective Western management of the world economy. The authors also trace the struggles of heads of state to balance the conflicting imperatives of personal authority and bureaucratic expertise. Because summits involve the power and prestige of each country's highest authorities, summitry reveals in concentrated form how these conflicts are expressed and managed.As a blend of contemporary history and political economy, "Hanging Together" demonstrates that summits are not isolated annual encounters, but part of a continuous process of international and domestic negotiation about the most important and controversial issues facing all governments today."

Tribal sovereignty and the intercultural public sphere

Abstract: While theorists of cultural pluralism have generally supported tribal sovereignty to protect threatened Native cultures, they fail to address adequately cultural conflicts between Native and non-Native communities, especially when tribal sovereignty facilitates illiberal or undemocratic practices. In response, I draw on Jurgen Habermas' conceptions of discourse and the public sphere to develop a universalist approach to cultural pluralism, called the 'intercultural public sphere', which analyzes how cultures can engage in mutual learning and mutual criticism under fair conditions. This framework accommodates cultural diversity within formally universalistic parameters while avoiding four common criticisms of universalist approaches to cultural pluralism. But this framework differs from that of Habermas in two ways. First, it includes 'subaltern' publics, open only to members of cultural subgroups, in order to counter relations of 'cultural power'. Second, it admits 'strong' publics, democratic institutions with decision-making powers. Finally, I show how the subaltern, strong institutions of tribal sovereignty contribute to the fair discursive conditions required for mutual learning and mutual critique in an intercultural public sphere.

Tribal sovereigns: Reframing research in American Indian education

Abstract: The inherent power dynamic between academic researchers and those they study is the focus of this article. Author K. Tsianina Lomawaima analyzes the shift in the balance of power between scholars and American Indian tribes that has occurred over the last four decades. She argues that issues such as access to subjects, data ownership, analysis and interpretation, and control over dissemination of findings all reflect what amounts to a struggle for power and tribal sovereignty. Lomawaima maintains that understanding the historical relationship between Native communities and academia, as well as the relatively new research protocols developed by various tribes, is necessary for responsible and respectful scholarship.

Coexistence in Wartime Lebanon: Decline of a State and Rise of a Nation

Abstract: Conflict regulation and crises in multi-communal states - the proliferation of multi-communal states in the 20th century the "Lebanese Model" - coexistence in pre-war Lebanon the clouding horizon - non-Lebanese factors of conflict danse macabre 1975-1988 - parties, masks and steps violence without victory - forms, costs and consequences of war foxes and lions - politicians and militia - leaders' perceptions of conflict coexistence in war - attitudes and opinions of economically active Lebanese 1981-1987 a revocable covenant - a preliminary synopsis the disintegration of the state - the road to dependence, 1988-1990 the two faces of the second republic - trappings of sovereignty, 1990-1992 the emergence of a nation - epilogue and conjectures.

Environmental movements, ecological modernisation and political opportunity structures

Abstract: During recent decades, environmental movements in First, Second and Third World countries have undergone far reaching changes. In western Europe and the United States they changed from radical grass‐roots groups striving for structural social reforms into highly institutionalised mass membership organisations, working within the neo‐liberal social order. In Eastern Europe and the former USSR, environmentalism flourished during the 1980s due to its articulation with national sovereignty claims but after 1989 the movement collapsed and now it lacks an institutional basis. In Third World countries, environmental groups are often torn between adaptation to western‐style patterns of development and resistance against the global neo‐liberal discourse. Ecological modernisation and sustainable development are both ways of dealing with environmental problems without fundamentally challenging the existing social order. Their applicability for environmental movements, however, is largely determined by political oppo...