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Divided Sovereignty - International Institutions and the Limits of State Authority (Paperback)
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Divided Sovereignty - International Institutions and the Limits of State Authority (Paperback)
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The question of how to constrain states that commit severe abuses
against their own citizens is as persistent as it is vexing. States
are imperfect political forms that in theory possess both a
monopoly on coercive power and final jurisdictional authority over
their territory. These twin elements of sovereignty and authority
can be used by state leaders and political representatives in ways
that stray significantly from the interests of citizens. In the
most extreme cases, when citizens become inconvenient obstacles in
the pursuit of the self-serving ambitions of their leaders, state
power turns against them. Genocide, torture, displacement, and rape
are often the means of choice by which the inconvenient are made to
suffer or vanish. In Divided Sovereignty, Carmen Pavel explores new
institutional solutions to this abiding problem. She argues that
coercive international institutions can stop these abuses and act
as an insurance scheme against the possibility of states failing to
fulfill their most basic sovereign responsibilities. She thus
challenges the longstanding assumption that collective grants of
authority from the citizens of a state should be made exclusively
for institutions within the borders of that state. Despite worries
that international institutions such as the International Criminal
Court could undermine domestic democratic control, citizens can
divide sovereign authority between state and international
institutions consistent with their right of democratic
self-governance. Pavel defends universal, principled limits on
state authority based on jus cogens norms, a special category of
norms in international law that prohibit violations of basic human
rights. Thoughtfully conceived and forcefully argued, Divided
Sovereignty will challenge what we think we know about the
relationship between international institutions and the pursuit of
the fundamental requirements of justice.
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