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Moderne, Staat und Internationale Politik
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2008; US$ 42.25Matthias Zimmer leistet mit Hilfe einer historisch gesättigten idealtypischen Konstruktion des "Westfälischen Systems" einen Beitrag zur Theoriediskussion in der Disziplin der Internationalen Politik. Dazu expliziert er die grundlegenden Prinzipien des sich nach 1648 entwickelten Westfälischen Systems als eines Systems souveräner Staaten und verknüpft... more...
Secessionist Movements and Ethnic Conflict
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.72This book analyses how national independence movements’ rhetoric can inflame or dampen ethnic violence. It examines the extent to the power of words matters when a region tries to break away to become a nation state. Using discourse analysis, this book examines how the process of secession affects internal ethnic relations and analyses how politicians... more...
Re-examining Sovereignty
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 175.00This book provides a complete documentary history of the idea of sovereignty from Classical theory to the global age. 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 Secession
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 32.00This book, first published in 1999, offers an explanation for the occurrence of secessionist conflict, based on a comparative study of numerous historical examples. more...
Altered States
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... more...
State Sovereignty
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 110.00State sovereignty is the foundation of international relations. This thought-provoking book explores 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. With many interesting real-world... more...
The Problem of Order in the Global Age
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 105.00This important contribution to the study of the problem of order, which figures prominently in today's globalization debate, focuses on the role of sovereignty. It 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...
Politics Without Sovereignty
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 46.34Written by leading scholars, this volume challenges the recent trend in international relations scholarship – the common antipathy to sovereignty. The classical doctrine of sovereignty is widely seen as totalitarian, producing external aggression and internal repression. Political leaders and opinion-makers throughout the world claim that the sovereign... more...
Political Pluralism and the State
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 46.34The concept of a sovereign nation-state is a central part in many of the debates discussing the salient issues in political science today. Yet the debate on the state is fragmented and while the sub-disciplines within political science address the various possible consequences of different processes, the one thing they all share is uncertainty about... more...
Indigeneity and Political Theory
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 48.99Indigeneity and Political Theory engages some of the profound challenges to traditions of modern political theory that have been posed over the past two decades. Karena Shaw is especially concerned with practices of sovereignty as they are embedded in and shape Indigenous politics, and responses to Indigenous politics. Drawing on theories of... more...
