Contending Sovereignties : Redefining Political Community / ed. by R.B.J. Walker, Saul H. Mendlovitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bateson, Mary Catherine, Contributor.

Camilleri, Joseph A., Contributor.

Mendlovitz, Saul H., Editor.

Walker, R.B.J., Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Even though there is little sign that either states or nationalist aspirations are about to wither away, there is now a growing concern that the principle of state sovereignty offers an inadequate response to the most fundamental questions of political life.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

1 Interrogating State Sovereignty

2 Rethinking Sovereignty in a Shrinking, Fragmented World

3 The Reification of Political Community

4 Evasions of Sovereignty

5 Sovereignty as Transformative Practice

6 Spatiality and Policy Discourse: Reading the Global City

7 The Politics of Secularism and the Recovery of Religious Tolerance

8 Beyond Sovereignty: An Emerging Global Civilization

9 Sovereignty, Identity, Community: Reflections on the Horizons of Contemporary Political Practice

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023)

ISBN:

1-68585-210-6

OCLC:

1394872851