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This edited book explores diverse contestations and transformations of sovereignty around the world.
List of contents
Introduction: Variations on Sovereignty
Part I: Theorizing Sovereignty in (I)nternational (R)elations 1.
The Making and Remaking of State Sovereignty in IR Theory: From Fantasy to Nightmare 2. States of Sovereignty and the Making of the World of our Making 3. Ontological Security and the Emotional Significance of Sovereignty
Part II: Suspensions: State Sovereignty Claimed and Questioned 4. The Aporetic State: On De Facto Paradoxes and Sovereign Agency 5. How the Iraqi Kurdistan Independence Debate Came to Die: Western IR Scholars as Co-Protagonists of the Nationalist Conflicts They Set Out to Describe 6. "Was the 'Islamic State' a State?" Claiming, Contesting, and Creating Jihadist Statehood
Part III: Staging Sovereignty: Performances at the Boundaries of the State 7. Practicing and Performing Sovereignty Abroad: Alternative Diplomacy 8.
Spectacular Fishing: Embodying Sovereignty in the Post-Brexit Channel Islands and the South China Sea 9. Self-Determination Denied and Contested: Palestine and Western Sahara
Part IV: Expanding and Re-imagining Sovereignty: Imperial and Supranational Entanglements 10.
EU Citizenship as Catalyst for New Sovereignty Practices 11. Open Pit of Ontological (In)security: Poland's Territorial Sovereignism and the Turów Lignite Mine Quagmire 12. Russia and Ukraine: Conflicting Time Perspectives in Recognition Policies and the Use of Force
Part V: Sovereignties Beyond the State 13.
"Doing Sovereignty": Sardinian Independentism and the Limits of State Sovereignty 14. Indigenous Sovereignty as the In-Between Space: What is and What is Possible
About the author
Hannes ¿erny is a Visiting Assistant Professor in International Relations/Security at Trent University (Canada). He is the author of Iraqi Kurdistan, the PKK and International Relations: Theory and Ethnic Conflict (2018).
Janis Grzybowski is Assistant Professor in Political Science/ International Relations at ESPOL at the Université Catholique de Lille and a Research Fellow at the REPI at the Université libre de Bruxelles.
Summary
This edited book explores diverse contestations and transformations of sovereignty around the world.
