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Sovereignty in Action

Sovereignty in Action

Leijssenaar, Bas
Walker, Neil

Hardcover

General LawGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1108483518
ISBN13: 9781108483513
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 18 2019
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 8.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Sovereignty in premodern times evoked the dynastic figure of the 'sovereign' or territorial monarch. In modern times, it became a more abstract idea, referring to the power of the state, later of the people or 'the popular sovereign' as articulated and refined through constitutional arrangements. Today these inherited understandings of sovereignty confront various new challenges, including those of globalization, privatization of power, and the rise of sub-state nationalism. An examination of key historical writers and trends from the seventeenth century onwards, including Hobbes, Bodin, Constant, Rousseau and Schmitt, brings out these developments and challenges. Sovereignty remains a malleable and 'active' feature of the global configuration of power. Will sovereignty become a redundant concept over time, or will it remain a key part of the grammar of modern politics?

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