Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XI, 383 Seiten)
Edition:
Reproduktion Issued also in print
ISBN:
9783111447117
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9783111447216
Content:
Shifting Sovereignties explores practical manifestations of sovereignty from antiquity to the Anthropocene. Taking a global-history perspective and centring Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, it destabilises overly neat theoretical notions of the concept. Shifting Sovereignties shows that, in practice, sovereignty is far from absolute, perpetual, indivisible, or supreme; rather it is fuzzy, compromised, fragmented, and layered. From these observations, the authors derive a historical conceptualisation which makes change and contingency core aspects of the understanding of sovereignty. Rather than understanding sovereignty as a characteristic of individual states, Mihatsch and Mulligan propose the notion of “sovereignty regimes”: frameworks of legitimation enforced through mutual recognition. These regimes are created and managed by more or less institutionalised structures which embody what the authors call “system sovereignty.” Sovereignty regimes and system sovereignty are, like sovereignty itself, continuously changing and contingent. This process of change forms the core of the book. Shifting Sovereignties thus contributes a practical, historical perspective on a concept which is foundational in political science, international relations, and international law
Note:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I An Impractical Concept -- Part 1: Many Beginnings -- Introduction -- II Sovereignty before Sovereignty -- III The Inventors of Sovereignty -- IV The Ascendance of Sovereignty -- Part 2: Illusions of Coherence -- Introduction -- V Imperial Entanglements -- VI The Fog of War -- VII The Dawn of Decolonisation -- Part 3: A Man in the Desert -- Introduction -- VIII Sovereignty on Ice -- IX The (Dead) End of Sovereignty? -- X The Mummy Returns -- XI Quo Vadis, Sovereignty? -- Bibliography -- Index
,
Issued also in print
,
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111446561
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mihatsch, Moritz A. Shifting sovereignties Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025 ISBN 9783111446561
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3111446565
Language:
English
Keywords:
Afrika
;
Mittlerer Osten
;
Asien
;
Souveränität
;
Geschichte
DOI:
10.1515/9783111447117
