Realizing sovereignty

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11426348
AutoresNaeem Inayatullah (autor de correspondencia), David L Blaney (0000-0002-4248-9815)
Año1995
Volumen21
Número1
Páginas3-20
Fecha de publicación1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReview of International Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0260-2105 • E-ISSN: 1469-9044
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0260210500117498
OpenAlexW4238484052
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas16

Sovereignty has become controversial. The idea and practice of sovereignty are said to be increasingly undermined by the simultaneous transnationalization and localization of political, economic, and cultural space. Not only is the ability of states to control their boundaries gradually erased, but given political boundaries seem unable to account for or define the dynamics of social life. At the same time, sovereignty is indicted as supportive of inequality, internal oppression, external imperialism, racism, and ecological destruction, among other unsavoury features of international social life. In this view, sovereignty is condemned as an ethically deficient way of organizing the international community. This is a confusing and contradictory picture. On the one hand, the boundaries defined by sovereignty appear increasingly irrelevant to international society, and on the other, the very power of sovereignty to demarcate boundaries is decried

International relations · Oppression · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Philosophy