The state of sovereignty
Subtitle: territories, laws, populations
By: edited by Douglas Howland and Luise White.
Contributors: Howland, Douglas, 1955-; White, Luise.
Series: 21st century studies -- v. 3
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780253352316; 9780253220165
Subjects: Sovereignty; Sovereignty -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Description: The State of Sovereignty examines how the nation-state became the prevailing form of governance in the world today. Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and addressing colonization and decolonization around the globe, these essays argue that sovereignty is a set of historically contingent practices, and not something that accrues naturally to states. The contributors explore the different ways in which sovereign political forms have been defined and have defined themselves, placing recent debates about nations and national identity within a broader history of sovereignty, territory, and legality.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : sovereignty and the study of states / Douglas Howland and Luise White; title: Sovereignty on the isthmus : federalism, U.S. empire, and the struggle for Panama during the California Gold Rush / Aims McGuinness; title: The foreign and the sovereign : extraterritoriality in East Asia / Douglas Howland; title: Wilsonian sovereignty in the Middle East : the King-Crane Commission report of 1919 / Leonard V. Smith; title: Colonial sovereignty in Manchuria and Manchukuo / David Tucker; title: Alternatives to empire : France and Africa after World War II / Frederick Cooper; title: The ambiguities of sovereignty : the United States and the global human rights cases of the 1940s and 1950s / Mark Philip Bradley; title: What does it take to be a state? : sovereignty and sanctions in Rhodesia, 1965-1980 / Luise White; title: Legal fictions after empire / John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan; title: Sovereignty after socialism at Europe's new borders / Keith Brown; title: Environmental security, spatial preservation, and state sovereignty in Central Africa / Kevin C. Dunn; title: The paradox of sovereignty in the Balkans / Aida A. Hozic; title: The secret lives of the "sovereign" : rethinking sovereignty as international morality / Siba N. Grovogui.