State sovereignty as social construct
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State sovereignty as social construct
(Cambridge studies in international relations, 46)
Cambridge University Press, 1996
- : hc
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
State sovereignty is an inherently social construct. The modern state system is not based on some timeless principle of sovereignty, but on the production of a normative conception which links authority, territory, population (society, nation), and recognition in a unique way, and in a particular place (the state). Attempting to realize this ideal entails a great deal of hard work on the part of statespersons, diplomats, and intellectuals. The ideal of state sovereignty is a product of the actions of powerful agents and the resistances to those actions by those located at the margins of power. The unique contribution of this book is to describe, theorize, and illustrate the practices which have socially constructed, reproduced, reconstructed, and deconstructed various sovereign ideals and resistances to them. The contributors analyse how all the components of state sovereignty - not only recognition, but also territory, population, and authority - are socially constructed and combined in specific historical contexts.
Table of Contents
- 1. The social construction of state sovereignty Thomas J. Biersteker and Cynthia Weber
- 2. Contested sovereignty: the social construction of colonial imperialism David Strang
- 3. Beyond the sovereignty dilemma: quasi-states as social construct Naeem Inayatullah
- 4. The sovereign state system as political-territorial ideal: historical and contemporary considerations Alexander Murphy
- 5. Sovereignty and the nation: constructing the boundaries of national identity Roxanne Lynn Doty
- 6. Sovereignty, nationalism and regional order in the Arab states system Michael Barnett
- 7. Popular sovereigns, bound states: the practices, structures and geopolitics of Philadelphian systems Daniel Deudney
- 8. Hierarchy under anarchy: informal empire and the East German state Alexander Wendt and Daniel Friedheim
- 9. Reconstructing the analysis of sovereignty
- concluding reflections and directions for future research Cynthia Weber and Thomas J. Biersteker.
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