Problematic Sovereignty - Contested Rules and Political Possibilities

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Stephen D. Krasner Klappentext Some of the most pressing issues in the contemporary international order revolve around a frequently invoked but highly contested concept: sovereignty. To what extent does the concept of sovereignty -- as it plays out in institutional arrangements! rules! and principles -- inhibit the solution of these issues? Can the rules of sovereignty be bent? Can they be ignored? Do they represent an insurmountable barrier to stable solutions or can alternative arrangements be created? Problematic Sovereignty attempts to answer these and other fundamental questions by taking account of the multiple! sometimes contradictory! components of the concept of sovereignty in cases ranging from the struggle for sovereignty between China and Taiwan to the compromised sovereignty of Bosnia under the Dayton Accord. Countering the common view of sovereignty that treats it as one coherent set of principles! the chapters of Problematic Sovereignty illustrate cases where the disaggregation of sovereignty has enabled political actors to create entities that are semiautonomous! semi-independent! and/or semilegal in order to solve specific problems stemming from competing claims to authority. Zusammenfassung Taking cognizance of the multiple! sometimes contradictory! components of the concept of sovereignty! this volume attempts to answer a fundamental question in international relations: to what extent does the concept of sovereignty inhibit the solution of some of the most pressing issues in the contemporary international order? Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface! by Stephen D. KrasnerProblematic Sovereignty! by Stephen D. KrasnerSovereignty: The Practitioner's Perspective! by Abraham D. Sofaer and Thomas C. HellerSovereignty from a World Polity Perspective! by John BoliThe Issue of Sovereignty in the Asian Historical Context! by Mchel OksenbergOne Sovereign! Two Legal Systems: China and the Problem of Commitment in Hong Kong! by James McCall SmithThe Struggle for Sovereignty between China and Taiwan! by Robert MadsenThe Sovereignty Script: Red Book for Russian Revolutionaries! by Michael McFaulBelarus and the Flight from Sovereignty! by Coit Blacker and Condoleezza RiceCompromised Sovreignty to Create Sovereignty: Is Dayton Bosnia Futile Exercise or an Emerging Model?! by Susan L. WoodwardThe Road to Palestinian Sovereignty: Problematic Structures or Conventional Obstacles?! by Shibley TelhamiExplaining Variation: Defaults! Coercion! Commitments! by Stephen D. Krasner ...

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Krasner, Stephen D. Krasner
• Assisted by: Stephen Krasner (Editor), Stephen D. Krasner (Editor), Krasner Stephen (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.02.2001
• EAN: 9780231121798
• ISBN: 978-0-231-12179-8
• No. of pages: 502
• Series: International Relations Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state