Variations on sovereignty : contestations and transformations from around the world / edited by Hannes Černy and Janis Grzybowski

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Edited by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group - 2023

"This edited book explores diverse contestations and transformations of sovereignty around the world. Sovereignty plays a central role in modern political thought and practice, but it also remains fundamentally contested. Depending on the context and perspective, it seems either omnipresent or elusive, liberating or oppressive, fading or resilient. Indeed, if in recent decades sovereignty has been expected to wane, today it is back on the agenda; not as the solid bedrock of modern - international - politics, which it never was, but as variations on a concept and institution that are ever contested and, as a result, constantly transforming. Bringing together perspectives from various disciplines, including International Relations (IR), political theory, geography, law, and anthropology, this volume: - goes beyond debates over the resilience or decline of sovereignty to instead emphasize how precisely the inherent ambiguities, tensions, and contestations in scholarship and practice spark sovereignty's manifold transformations; - offers three theoretical chapters that examine the illusions, contradictions, transformation, and lasting appeal of sovereignty and the nation-state; - explores sovereignty from various disciplinary perspectives in 11 empirical chapters that highlight its role in different contexts around the world, from the European Union (EU) to the South China Sea, to Western Sahara and Palestine; - problematizes the interplay between theory and practice of statehood and sovereignty, as in the perception of Northern Cyprus as a 'fake state', scholars' promotion of Kurdish 'statehood' in Iraq, and studies affirming the 'Islamic State'. This book will be of much interest to students of statehood, sovereignty, conflict studies and International Relations"--

Introduction : variations on sovereignty / Janis Grzybowski and Hannes Černy. The making and remaking of state sovereignty in IR theory : from fantasy to nightmare / Moran Mandelbaum. States of sovereignty and the making of the world of our making / Zoran Oklopcic. Ontological security and the emotional significance of sovereignty / Nina C. Krickel-Choi. The aporetic state : on de facto paradoxes and sovereign agency / Rebecca Bryant. How the Iraqi Kurdistan independence debate came to die : Western IR scholars as coprotagonists of the nationalist conflicts they set out to describe / Hannes Černy. "Was the 'Islamic State' a state?" : claiming, contesting, and creating jihadist statehood / Maj Grasten and Janis Grzybowski. Practicing and performing sovereignty abroad : alternative diplomacy / Giulia Prelz Oltramonti. Spectacular fishing : embodying sovereignty in the post-Brexit Channel Islands and the South China Sea / Edyta Roszko. Self-determination denied and contested : Palestine and Western Sahara / Randa Farah. EU citizenship as catalyst for new sovereignty practices / Sandra Mantu. Open pit of ontological (in)security : Poland's territorial sovereignism and the Turów lignite mine quagmire / Dominik Sipinski. Russia and Ukraine : conflicting time perspectives in recognition policies and the use of force / Bruno Coppieters. "Doing sovereignty" : Sardinian independentism and the limits of state sovereignty / Daniela Morgan. Indigenous sovereignty as the in-between space : what is and what is possible / Matthew Wildcat and Justin de Leon.

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