Sovereignty in fragments : the past, present and future of a contested concept

"The political make-up of the contemporary world changes with such rapidity that few attempts have been made to consider with adequate care the nature and value of the concept of sovereignty. What exactly is meant when one speaks about the acquisition, preservation, infringement or loss of sove...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
Weitere Verfasser: Kalmo, Hent (HerausgeberIn), Skinner, Quentin 1940- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2010
Schlagworte:Sovereignty Souveränität Geschichte
Umfang:IX, 269 Seiten
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction: a concept in fragments Hent Kalmo and Quentin Skinner; 1. The sovereign state: a genealogy Quentin Skinner; 2. The apparition of sovereignty Denis Baranger; 3. The Westphalian myth and the idea of external sovereignty Pa;rtel Piirima;e; 4. Double binds: sovereignty and the just war tradition Jens Bartelson; 5. The durability of organized hypocrisy Stephen D. Krasner; 6. A matter of fact? The many faces of sovereignty Hent Kalmo; 7. The survival of sovereignty Michel Troper; 8. Sovereignty and after Neil MacCormick; 9. Prolegomena for the post-sovereign Rechtsstaat Patrick Praet; 10. Sovereignty beyond the state Jüri Lipping; 11. Sovereignty between government, exception and governance Antonio Negri; 12. Conclusion: vocabularies of sovereignty: the powers of a paradox Martti Koskenniemi.