On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions (Hardcover)

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Winner of the 2015 David Easton Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association (APSA) Global forces are eroding the ability of states to exert sovereign control over their populations, territories, and borders. Yet when dominated subjects across the world dream of freedom, they continue to conceive of it in sovereign terms. Sovereign freedom haunts the imagination of oppressed ethnic minorities, popular masses ruled by foreign powers or homegrown tyrants, indigenous peoples, and individuals chafing under customary or governmental restrictions. On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions draws on political theory and on two case studies - the encounter between Anglo-American settlers and Native American tribes, and the search for Jewish sovereignty in Palestine - to probe the allure of the idea of sovereign freedom and its self-defeating logic. It concludes by shifting its sights from political to economic sovereign power and by pursuing intimations of non-sovereign freedom in the contemporary age.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Theory for a Global Age Series
Release date:	October 2014
First published:	December 2014
Authors:	Joan Cocks
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-1-78093-353-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Promotions
LSN:	1-78093-353-3
Barcode:	9781780933535

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