This edited book explores diverse contestations and transformations
of sovereignty around the world. Sovereignty plays a central role
in modern political thought and practice, but it also remains
fundamentally contested. Depending on the context and perspective,
it seems either omnipresent or elusive, liberating or oppressive,
fading or resilient. Indeed, if in recent decades sovereignty has
been expected to wane, today it is back on the agenda; not as the
solid bedrock of modern – international – politics, which it
never was, but as variations on a concept and institution that are
ever contested and, as a result, constantly transforming. Bringing
together perspectives from various disciplines, including
International Relations (IR), political theory, geography, law, and
anthropology, this volume: • goes beyond debates over the
resilience or decline of sovereignty to instead emphasize how
precisely the inherent ambiguities, tensions, and contestations in
scholarship and practice spark sovereignty’s manifold
transformations; • offers three theoretical chapters that examine
the illusions, contradictions, transformation, and lasting appeal
of sovereignty and the nation-state; • explores sovereignty from
various disciplinary perspectives in 11 empirical chapters that
highlight its role in different contexts around the world, from the
European Union (EU) to the South China Sea, to Western Sahara and
Palestine; • problematizes the interplay between theory and
practice of statehood and sovereignty, as in the perception of
Northern Cyprus as a ‘fake state’, scholars’ promotion of
Kurdish ‘statehood’ in Iraq, and studies affirming the
‘Islamic State’. This book will be of much interest to students
of statehood, sovereignty, conflict studies and International
Relations.
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