Sovereignty in the Balance

Claims and Bargains at the UN Conferences on the Environment, Human Rights, and Women

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7302003
AutoresKathryn Hochstetler (0000-0003-2960-058X, Colorado State University), Ann Marie Clark (0000-0002-2634-7358, Purdue University West Lafayette), E J Friedman (0000-0003-3134-4124, Columbia University)
Año2000
Volumen44
Número4
Páginas591-614
Fecha de publicación2000-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-8833 • E-ISSN: 1468-2478
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/0020-8833.00173
OpenAlexW2058722136
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas10

States vary the content and subject matter of their claims to sovereignty. In an analysis of when states invoked sovereignty at recent UN World Conferences on the environment (1992), human rights (1993), and women (1995), the authors revise and extend Litfin's (1997) notion of bargains among components of sovereignty. At the conferences, states invoked sovereignty in debates over cultural and religious values, economics, and increased international accountability. The authors interpret the debates based on how four elements of sovereignty—autonomy, control, and legitimacy in the eyes of other states and nonstate actors—are traded by states through implicit or explicit bargaining. They identify patterns that vary by issue area. The authors argue that nongovernmental organizations as well as other states may legitimate or delegitimate states' sovereign claims. They find that countries of the global South made more sovereignty claims of all kinds than Northern states. And, sovereignty bargains may be struck more easily over power and economics than social values

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