Competing sovereignties / Richard Joyce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joyce, Richard John, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sovereignty.

Intellectual property.

International relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Taylor and Francis 2012

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Competing Sovereignties provides a critique of the concept of sovereignty in modernity in light of claims to determine the content of law at the international, national and local levels. In an argument that is illustrated through an analysis of debates over the control of intellectual property law in India, Richard Joyce considers how economic globalization and the claims of indigenous communities do not just challenge national sovereignty - as if national sovereignty is the only kind of sovereignty - but in fact invite us to challenge our conception of what sovereignty 'is'. Combining theo

Contents:

Introduction : the crisis of modern sovereignty

Modern sovereignty and the nation state : a failure of grounds

Autopositioning : the groundless ground of modern sovereignty

The constitutive function of relation

The relation of sovereigns at the national and international levels : India and the WTO

The relation of sovereigns at the international, national and local levels.

Notes:

"A GlassHouse book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-29495-3

1-283-58573-1

9786613898180

0-203-11541-4

1-136-29496-1

9780203115411

OCLC:

810082823