Variations on sovereignty : contestations and transformations from around the world
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Variations on sovereignty : contestations and transformations from around the world
（Routledge studies in statehood）
Routledge, 2023
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This edited book explores diverse contestations and transformations of sovereignty around the world.
Sovereignty plays a central role in modern political thought and practice, but it also remains fundamentally contested. Depending on the context and perspective, it seems either omnipresent or elusive, liberating or oppressive, fading or resilient. Indeed, if in recent decades sovereignty has been expected to wane, today it is back on the agenda; not as the solid bedrock of modern - international - politics, which it never was, but as variations on a concept and institution that are ever contested and, as a result, constantly transforming.
Bringing together perspectives from various disciplines, including International Relations (IR), political theory, geography, law, and anthropology, this volume:
* goes beyond debates over the resilience or decline of sovereignty to instead emphasize how precisely the inherent ambiguities, tensions, and contestations in scholarship and practice spark sovereignty's manifold transformations;
* offers three theoretical chapters that examine the illusions, contradictions, transformation, and lasting appeal of sovereignty and the nation-state;
* explores sovereignty from various disciplinary perspectives in 11 empirical chapters that highlight its role in different contexts around the world, from the European Union (EU) to the South China Sea, to Western Sahara and Palestine;
* problematizes the interplay between theory and practice of statehood and sovereignty, as in the perception of Northern Cyprus as a 'fake state', scholars' promotion of Kurdish 'statehood' in Iraq, and studies affirming the 'Islamic State'.
This book will be of much interest to students of statehood, sovereignty, conflict studies and International Relations.
Chapters 8 of this book are available for free in Open Access at www.taylorfrancis.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Variations on Sovereignty Part I: Theorizing Sovereignty in (I)nternational (R)elations 1. The Making and Remaking of State Sovereignty in IR Theory: From Fantasy to Nightmare 2. States of Sovereignty and the Making of the World of our Making 3. Ontological Security and the Emotional Significance of Sovereignty Part II: Suspensions: State Sovereignty Claimed and Questioned 4. The Aporetic State: On De Facto Paradoxes and Sovereign Agency 5. How the Iraqi Kurdistan Independence Debate Came to Die: Western IR Scholars as Co-Protagonists of the Nationalist Conflicts They Set Out to Describe 6. "Was the 'Islamic State' a State?" Claiming, Contesting, and Creating Jihadist Statehood Part III: Staging Sovereignty: Performances at the Boundaries of the State 7. Practicing and Performing Sovereignty Abroad: Alternative Diplomacy 8. Spectacular Fishing: Embodying Sovereignty in the Post-Brexit Channel Islands and the South China Sea 9. Self-Determination Denied and Contested: Palestine and Western Sahara Part IV: Expanding and Re-imagining Sovereignty: Imperial and Supranational Entanglements 10. EU Citizenship as Catalyst for New Sovereignty Practices 11. Open Pit of Ontological (In)security: Poland's Territorial Sovereignism and the Turow Lignite Mine Quagmire 12. Russia and Ukraine: Conflicting Time Perspectives in Recognition Policies and the Use of Force Part V: Sovereignties Beyond the State 13. "Doing Sovereignty": Sardinian Independentism and the Limits of State Sovereignty 14. Indigenous Sovereignty as the In-Between Space: What is and What is Possible
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