SOVEREIGNTY AS SYMBOLIC FORM by Jens Bartelson ( 9780415446839 )

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SOVEREIGNTY AS SYMBOLIC FORM

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Jens Bartelson

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041544683X

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

6 May, 2014

Series:

Critical Issues in Global Politics

Pages:

134

Synopsis:

This book is a critical inquiry into sovereignty and argues that the meaning and functions performed by this concept have changed significantly during the past decades, with profound implications for the ontological status of the state and the modus operandi of the international system as a whole. Although we have grown accustomed to regarding sovereignty as a defining characteristic of the modern state and as a constitutive principle of the international system, Sovereignty as Symbolic Form argues that recent changes indicate that sovereignty has been turned into something granted, contingent upon its responsible exercise in accordance with the norms and values of an imagined international community. Hence we need a new understanding of sovereignty in order to clarify the logic of its current usage in theory and practice alike, and its connection to broader concerns of social ontology: what kind of world do we inhabit, and of what kind of entities is this world composed? This book will be of interest to students of International Relations, Critical Security and International Politics.

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