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A comparative study of the representation of sovereignty in
paradigmatic plays of early modernity, The Tears of Sovereignty
argues that the great playwrights of the period-William
Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Calderon de la Barca-reconstitute
the metaphors through which contemporary theorists continue to
conceive the problems of sovereignty. The book focuses in
particular on the ways the logics of these metaphors inform
sovereignty's conceptualization as a "body of power." Each chapter
is organized around a key tropological operation performed on that
"body," from the analogical relations invoked in Richard II,
through the metaphorical transfers staged in Measure for Measure to
the autoimmune resistances they produce in Lope's Fuenteovejuna,
and, finally, the allegorical returns of Calderon's Life Is a Dream
and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. The "tears" of sovereignty are
the exegetical tropes produced and performed on the English stages
and Spanish corrales of the seventeenth century through which we
continue to view sovereignty today.
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the
political systems of all ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste from a
comparative perspective. It investigates the political
institutions, actors and processes in eleven states, covering
democracies as well as autocratic regimes. Each country study
includes an analysis of the current system of governance, the party
and electoral system, and an assessment of the state, its legal
system and administrative bodies. Students of political science and
regional studies will also learn about processes of democratic
transition and autocratic persistence, as well as how civil society
and the media influence the political culture in each country.
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