Re-Examining Sovereignty
Subtitle: From Classical Theory to the Global Age
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 17, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780312230913
Subjects: State; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; History & Theory - General; World - General; History-World - General; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science / Leadership; Histoire; History; Souverainetâe; Sovereignty
Description: "By examining documents on sovereignty by major as well as little-known thinkers, which show the interrelationship between political reality and the principle of sovereignty in history, the author challenges conventional understandings of sovereignty. He adopts two methodological standpoints. The 'diachronic' perspective illuminates the characteristic feature of modern sovereignty: the anthropomorphism of nations. The 'synchronic' perspective identifies nationalism and constitutionalism.

The author goes on to claim that the Peace of Westphalia does not explain modern national sovereignty. Furthermore, the rise and fall of the constitutional theory of sovereignty reflects domestic as well as international political environments. He concludes that the recent transformation of the principle of sovereignty in the post-Cold War world can be understood in the context of 'new international constitutionalism'."--BOOK JACKET.