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Zusatztext 'Political Survival and the Surrender of Sovereignty presents an innovative! sophisticated and engaging multi-method take on the creation and endurance of international hierarchy. The book sets out and resolves the key puzzle of why subordinates defer to superiors! even to the point of surrendering sovereignty! finding the answer in domestic politics.' Jason Sharman! University of Cambridge Informationen zum Autor Jesse Dillon Savage is Assistant Professor of global politics in the Department of Political Science at Trinity College, Dublin. Klappentext Exploring why political actors willingly give up sovereignty to another state or why they choose to resist, this book is aimed at those interested in international politics and international relations theory, international hierarchy, informal empire and politics and foreign policy of Russia and former Soviet States. Zusammenfassung Exploring why political actors willingly give up sovereignty to another state or why they choose to resist! this book is aimed at those interested in international politics and international relations theory! international hierarchy! informal empire and politics and foreign policy of Russia and former Soviet States. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Hierarchy and international politics; 1. Political survival and the surrender of sovereignty; 2. Submission, resistance, and war: national politics and Russian hierarchy in Georgia and Ukraine since independence; 3. Subnational politics and sovereignty in post-Soviet Georgia; 4. Mass politics and the surrender of sovereignty; 5. European informal empire in China, the Ottoman Empire and Egypt: hierarchy and informal empire in historical context; 6. Cross national variation in sovereignty and hierarchy; 7. Hierarchy, political order, and great power politics.
