Problematic sovereignty : contested rules and political possibilities / Stephen Krasner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krasner, Steven, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sovereignty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Some of the most pressing issues in the contemporary international order revolve around a frequently invoked but highly contested concept: sovereignty. To what extent does the concept of sovereignty-as it plays out in institutional arrangements, rules, and principles-inhibit the solution of these issues? Can the rules of sovereignty be bent? Can they be ignored? Do they represent an insurmountable barrier to stable solutions or can alternative arrangements be created? Problematic Sovereignty attempts to answer these and other fundamental questions by taking account of the multiple, sometimes contradictory, components of the concept of sovereignty in cases ranging from the struggle for sovereignty between China and Taiwan to the compromised sovereignty of Bosnia under the Dayton Accord. Countering the common view of sovereignty that treats it as one coherent set of principles, the chapters of Problematic Sovereignty illustrate cases where the disaggregation of sovereignty has enabled political actors to create entities that are semiautonomous, semi-independent, and/or semilegal in order to solve specific problems stemming from competing claims to authority.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface / Krasner, Stephen D.

About the Authors

1. Problematic Sovereignty / Krasner, Stephen D.

2. Sovereignty: The Practitioners' Perspective / Heller, Thomas C. / Sofaer, Abraham D.

3. Sovereignty from a World Polity Perspective / Boli, John

4. The Issue of Sovereignty in the Asian Historical Context / Oksenberg, Michel

5. One Sovereign, Two Legal Systems: China and the Problem of Commitment in Hong Kong / McCall Smith, James

6. The Struggle for Sovereignty Between China and Taiwan / Madsen, Robert A.

7. The Sovereignty Script: Red Book for Russian Revolutionaries / McFaul, Michael

8. Belarus and the Flight from Sovereignty / Blacker, Coit / Rice, Condoleezza

9. Compromised Sovereignty to Create Sovereignty: Is Dayton Bosnia a Futile Exercise or an Emerging Model? / Woodward, Susan L.

10. The Road to Palestinian Sovereignty: Problematic Structures or Conventional Obstacles? / Telhami, Shibley

11. Explaining Variation: Defaults, Coercion, Commitments / Krasner, Stephen D.

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231505413

0231505418

OCLC:

51938879