Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty
Author: Harold Joseph Laski
Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press
Published: 1917
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13:
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The Problem of Sovereignty in the Later Middle Ages
Author: Michael Wilks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-07-31
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780521070188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSovereignty has always been an important concept in political thought, and at no time in European history was it more important than during the perplexed conditions of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Universal government was a fading dream, giving way to the new conception of the national state and the whole basis of political thought was being reorientated by the influx of Aristotelian ideas. Dr Wilks's book is an attempt to clarify the more important problems in the political outlook of the period. He shows that at this time the theologians and literary writers, especially Augustinus Triumphus of Ancona, had built up a complete theory of sovereignty in favour of the papal monarchy, based on a neo-Platonic, Augustinian view of the church as a universal and totalitarian state.
The Foundations of Sovereignty and Other Essays
Author: Harold Joseph Laski
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1584773308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaski's Theory of the State This influential study develops aspects of Laski's theory of the state, ideas he introduced in his first important publication, Authority in the Modern State (1919). According to Laski, the state is not a supreme entity; it is one association among many that must compete for the people's loyalty and obedience. Harold J. Laski [1893-1950] was a teacher, political scientist, and leader of the Labour Party. His ideas influenced the work of Felix Frankfurter and Oliver Wendell Holmes, who were two of his closest friends. His work also influenced Jawaharlal Nehru who would go on to become India's first prime minister. xi, [iii], 317 pp.
Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty (Works of Harold J. Laski)
Author: Harold J. Laski
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-24
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1317586980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn influential study of political power, originally published in 1917. Laski's theoretical ideas are elaborated through examples drawn from political and religious movements, such as the Catholic Revival and the creation of the German Empire. He concludes that the state is not a supreme entity; it is one association among many that must compete for the people's loyalty and obedience.
Problematic Sovereignty
Author: Stephen D. Krasner
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780231121798
DOWNLOAD EBOOK-- Daniel Deudney, Johns Hopkins University, coeditor of Contested Grounds: Security and Conflict in the New Environmental Politics.
Authority in the Modern State
Author: Harold Joseph Laski
Publisher:
Published: 1919
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This volume is some sort the sequel to a book on the problem of sovereignty which I published in March, 1917."--Preface.
State Sovereignty as Social Construct
Author: Thomas J. Biersteker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-05-02
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9780521562522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKState sovereignty is an inherently social construct. The modern state system is not based on some timeless principle of sovereignty, but on the production of a normative conception that links authority, territory, population, and recognition in a unique way, and in a particular place (the state). The unique contribution of this book is to describe and illustrate the practices that have produced various sovereign ideals and resistances to them. The contributors analyze how the components of state sovereignty are socially constructed and combined in specific historical contexts.
Sovereignty
Author: Dieter Grimm
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-04-21
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0231539304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDieter Grimm's accessible introduction to the concept of sovereignty ties the evolution of the idea to historical events, from the religious conflicts of sixteenth-century Europe to today's trends in globalization and transnational institutions. Grimm wonders whether recent political changes have undermined notions of national sovereignty, comparing manifestations of the concept in different parts of the world. Geared for classroom use, the study maps various notions of sovereignty in relation to the people, the nation, the state, and the federation, distinguishing between internal and external types of sovereignty. Grimm's book will appeal to political theorists and cultural-studies scholars and to readers interested in the role of charisma, power, originality, and individuality in political rule.
A Genealogy of Sovereignty
Author: Jens Bartelson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-04-06
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780521478885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe concept of sovereignty is central to international relations theory and theories of state formation, and provides the foundation of the conventional separation of modern politics into domestic and international spheres. In this book Jens Bartelson provides a critical analysis and conceptual history of sovereignty, dealing with this separation as reflected in philosophical and political texts during three periods: the Renaissance, the Classical Age, and Modernity. He argues that the concept of sovereignty and its place within political discourse are conditioned by philosophical and historiographical discontinuities between the periods, and that sovereignty should be regarded as a concept contingent upon, rather than fundamental to, political science and its history.
The Credibility of Sovereignty – The Political Fiction of a Concept
Author: Elia R.G. Pusterla
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-19
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 3319263188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book deeply analyses the bilateral relations between Switzerland and the European Union and their effect on the former's sovereignty in the context of Europeanisation. This touches on philosophical debates on the complexity of sovereignty. What sovereignty is at stake when talking about Swiss-EU relations? This issue not only faces the elusiveness of sovereignty as a concept, but also the proliferation of hypocrisy on its presence within states. The book encounters the deconstructionist hypothesis stating that there is nothing to worry about but the belief there is something to worry about. Derrida’s deconstruction of sovereignty allows indeed one to grasp the fictional essence of sovereignty based on the metaphysics of presence. The presence of self-positing sovereign ipseity is fictional since absent in the present, but spectrally present in the belief of its presence to come. Sovereignty is a matter of credibility, or the credible promise of a normative statement to come. Hence, the book challenges the realist/neorealist argument stating that states are credibly sovereign until proven otherwise and explains that the debate on state sovereignty calls for the unveiling of this hypocritical epistemology cunningly disguised as an objective presence. Swiss-EU relations thus become the cornerstone to not only theorise but also test sovereignty and deconstruct the two ontological and epistemological sides of the same coin, or the modern hypocrisy of sovereignty. This deconstruction constitutes the very problématique of any attempt to understand whether and how a state can be sovereign and solve the problem as to how to neutralise the différance and identify the difference between credible and incredible claims of sovereignty. This problématique connects the theory and practice of sovereignty innovatively, providing positivist evidence on the arguable credibility of the Swiss claim of sovereignty and confirming the presence of a theological dimension within politics.
