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De Facto Statesby Tozun Bahcheli; Barry Bartmann; Henry Srebrnik
Routledge 2003; US$ 170.00This volume for the first time provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical examination of a new and very significant development in the international politics of fragmentation. more...
Autonomy, Self Governance and Conflict Resolutionby Marc Weller; Stefan Wolff
Routledge 2005; US$ 41.95This book focuses on the resolution of self-determined conflicts, in which self-defined population groups fight to determine their own destiny within the boundaries of existing states. more...
Natural Law and Civil Sovereigntyby Ian Hunter; David Saunders
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 100.00In Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty new research by leading international scholars is brought to bear on a single crucial issue: the role of early modern natural law doctrines in reconstructing the relations between moral right and civil authority in the face of profound religious and political conflict. In addition to providing fresh insights into the hard-fought struggle to legitimate a desacralised civil order, the book also shows the degree to which the legitimacy of the modern secular state remains dependent on this decisive set of developments. more...
Re-examining Sovereigntyby Dr Hideaki Shinoda
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 140.00This book provides a complete documentary history of the idea of sovereignty from Classical theory to the global age. Its 'diachronic' perspective illuminates the characteristic feature of modern sovereignty: the anthropomorphism of nations. The 'synchronic' perspective describes conflicting elements within the history of sovereignty by identifying its encounter with nationalism and constitutionalism. The historical examination of sovereignty leads the author to conclude that the recent transformation of the principle of sovereignty can be understood in the context of 'new international constitutionalism'. more...
The Dynamic of Secessionby Viva Ona Bartkus; Steve Smith; Thomas Biersteker; Chris Brown; Phil Cerny; Joseph Grieco; A. J. R. Groom
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 33.00Secessionist activity has been increasing in the developing world, in Western liberal democracies, and especially in the former Communist states of Eastern Europe. This timely book offers a general explanation for the occurrence of the phenomenon, arising from a comparative study of numerous historical examples of secession and separatist conflict. more...
Sovereignty in Transitionby Neil Walker
Hart 2003; US$ 163.20"Sovereignty in Transition" brings together a group of leading scholars from law and cognate disciplines to assess contemporary developments in the framework of ideas and the variety of institutional forms associated with the concept of sovereignty. The collection focuses particularly on the EU. more...
Democratic Sovereigntyby Matthew Weinert
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 160.00This new book argues that sovereignty, generally defined as the supreme authority in a political community, has a neglected democratic dimension that highlights the expansion of substantive individual rights and freedoms at home and abroad. more...
Altered Statesby Gordon Smith; Moisés Naím
International Development Research Centre 2000; US$ 15.00The dangerous turmoil is plain to see in the everyday failures of governments. Economic insecurity, polluted environments, the transfiguring power of global media, brooding conflicts of tribe and territory: all confound the capacity of even the most powerful state to govern alone, even on its own territory. For all the opportunities that globalization promises, it raises urgent questions of governance. Can states any longer govern? Has the achievement of democratic government come too late for most of the world? Can globalization be democratized?. In Altered States, Gordon Smith and Moisés Naím provide practical recommendations for improved governance and for strengthening and reforming the United Nations. They explore the dynamics of globalization... more...
State Sovereigntyby Ersun N. Kurtulus
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 90.00explores the gap between seeing sovereignty as either absolute or relative. It argues that state sovereignty is both factual and judicial and that the 'loss' of sovereignty exists only at the margins of the international society. more...
The Problem of Order in the Global Ageby Andreas Pickel
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 85.00Presents a study of the problem of order, which focuses on the role of sovereignty. This book advances arguments based on psychocultural perspectives and looks at postcommunist transformations and changes in political, economic and cultural orders at all levels of social life. more...









