Sovereignty as Symbolic Form

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-415-44683-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 134 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 182 g

Reihe: Critical Issues in Global Politics

This book is a critical inquiry into sovereignty and argues that the meaning and functions performed by this concept have changed significantly during the past decades, with profound implications for the ontological status of the state and the modus operandi of the international system as a whole.

Although we have grown accustomed to regarding sovereignty as a defining characteristic of the modern state and as a constitutive principle of the international system, Sovereignty as Symbolic Form argues that recent changes indicate that sovereignty has been turned into something granted, contingent upon its responsible exercise in accordance with the norms and values of an imagined international community. Hence we need a new understanding of sovereignty in order to clarify the logic of its current usage in theory and practice alike, and its connection to broader concerns of social ontology: what kind of world do we inhabit, and of what kind of entities is this world composed?

This book will be of interest to students of International Relations, Critical Security and International Politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bartelson, Jens

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, Introduction: Revisiting Sovereignty, Chapter 1 Sovereignty as Symbolic Form, Chapter 2 The Fetishism of Sovereignty, Chapter 3 Restoring Sovereignty? Conclusion: Reinventing Outsides?

Über Autor(innen)

Jens Bartelson is Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden