Problematic Sovereignty: Contested Rules and Political Possibilities

Published by Columbia University Press 2001

Problematic Sovereignty

Contested Rules and Political Possibilities

Edited by: Stephen Krasner

https://doi.org/10.7312/kras12178

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Taking cognizance of the multiple, sometimes contradictory, components of the concept of sovereignty, this volume attempts to answer a fundamental question in international relations: to what extent does the concept of sovereignty inhibit the solution of some of the most pressing issues in the contemporary international order?

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.

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Stephen D. Krasner is Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations and Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. His publications include Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Stephen D. Krasner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
1. Problematic Sovereignty Stephen D. Krasner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Sovereignty: The Practitioners’ Perspective Thomas C. Heller and Abraham D. Sofaer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3. Sovereignty from a World Polity Perspective John Boli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
4. The Issue of Sovereignty in the Asian Historical Context Michel Oksenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
5. One Sovereign, Two Legal Systems: China and the Problem of Commitment in Hong Kong James McCall Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
6. The Struggle for Sovereignty Between China and Taiwan Robert A. Madsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
7. The Sovereignty Script: Red Book for Russian Revolutionaries Michael McFaul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
8. Belarus and the Flight from Sovereignty Coit Blacker and Condoleezza Rice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
9. Compromised Sovereignty to Create Sovereignty: Is Dayton Bosnia a Futile Exercise or an Emerging Model? Susan L. Woodward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
10. The Road to Palestinian Sovereignty: Problematic Structures or Conventional Obstacles? Shibley Telhami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
11. Explaining Variation: Defaults, Coercion, Commitments Stephen D. Krasner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 502

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Published: February 22, 2001
ISBN: 9780231505413