This 2005 book presents an argument for the right of groups to secede, offering a thorough and unapologetic defense.
This 2005 book presents an argument for the right of groups to secede, offering a thorough and...
Cynthia Weber offers an original and important contribution to the understanding of sovereignty, the state and intervention in international relations theory.
Cynthia Weber offers an original and important contribution to the understanding of sovereignty, the...
Jens Bartelson provides a critical analysis and conceptual history of sovereignty, dealing with philosophical and political texts during three periods.
Jens Bartelson provides a critical analysis and conceptual history of sovereignty, dealing with ...
Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Political Theology develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made Carl Schmitt one of the most significant and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century. Focusing on the relationships among political leadership, the...
Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, ...
Sovereignty is at the very centre of the political and legal arrangements of the modern world. The idea originated in the controversies and wars, both religious and political, of 16th and 17th century Europe and since that time it has continued to spread and evolve. Today sovereignty is a global system of authority: it extends across all religions,...
Sovereignty is at the very centre of the political and legal arrangements of the modern world. The...
Conflicts over the rights of self-defined population groups to determine their own destiny within the boundaries of existing states are among the most violent forms of inter-communal conflict. Many experts agree that autonomy regimes are a useful framework within which competing claims to self-determination can be accommodated. This volume...
Conflicts over the rights of self-defined population groups to determine their own destiny within...
This book examines the causes and consequences of a major transformation in both domestic and international politics: the shift from dynastically legitimated monarchical sovereignty to popularly legitimated national sovereignty. It analyzes the impact of Enlightenment discourse on politics in eighteenth-century Europe and the United States, showing...
This book examines the causes and consequences of a major transformation in both domestic and...
In 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...
In Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty new research by leading international scholars is brought to...
This invaluable collection compares the relatively unsuccessful economic development of Subsaharan Africa with that of the successful Asian economies, especially the Asian 'tigers'. It covers three main areas of comparison: the lessons for Africa from the Asian experience; secondly, the comparisons of various aspects of economic development in...
This invaluable collection compares the relatively unsuccessful economic development of Subsaharan...
The 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...
The dangerous turmoil is plain to see in the everyday failures of governments. Economic insecurity,...