Bickerton / Cunliffe / Gourevitch Politics Without Sovereignty

A Critique of Contemporary International Relations
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-134-11385-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Written by leading scholars, this volume challenges the recent trend in international relations scholarship – the common antipathy to sovereignty.

The classical doctrine of sovereignty is widely seen as totalitarian, producing external aggression and internal repression. Political leaders and opinion-makers throughout the world claim that the sovereign state is a barrier to efficient global governance and the protection of human rights.

Two central claims are advanced in this book. First, that the sovereign state is being undermined not by the pressures of globalization but by a diminished sense of political possibility. Second, it demonstrates that those who deny the relevance of sovereignty have failed to offer superior alternatives to the sovereign state. Sovereignty remains the best institution to establish clear lines of political authority and accountability, preserving the idea that people shape collectively their own destiny. The authors claim that this positive idea of sovereignty as self-determination remains integral to politics both at the domestic and international levels.

Politics Without Sovereignty will be of great interest to students and scholars of political science, international relations, security studies, international law, development and European studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bickerton, Christopher

Cunliffe, Philip

Gourevitch, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Unholy Alliance against Sovereignty The Editors 1. Politics Without Sovereignty The Editors 2. Sovereignty and the Politics of Responsibility Philip Cunliffe 3. National Insecurities: The New Politics of the American National Interest Alexander Gourevitch 4. From State of War to State of Nature: Human Security and Sovereignty Tara McCormack 5. State-Building: Exporting State Failure Christopher J. Bickerton 6. Country Ownership: The Evasion of Donor Accountability John Pender 7. European Union: A Process Without a Subject James Heartfield 8. Deconstructing Sovereignty: Constructing Global Civil Society David Chandler 9. Legalizing Politics and Politicizing Law: The Changing Relationship Between Sovereignty and International Law Michael Savage 10. How Should Sovereignty Be Defended? James Der Derian, Michael W. Doyle, Jack L. Snyder and David Kennedy

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher J. Bickerton, St John’s College, University of Oxford, UK.

Philip Cunliffe, King’s College London, UK.

Alexander Gourevitch, Columbia University, USA.