The Origins of Federal Theory in International Relations Ideas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6356405 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick Riley (0000-0003-0797-0272), P W J Riley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-121 |
| Publication date | 1973-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3234183 |
| OpenAlex | W2314720483 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Professor Riley explores historically the ideas of sovereignty and state and the seventeenth-century federal theories of Hugo and Leibniz. He undertakes to demonstrate that the theory of federalism, both as an internal scheme for a state and as a plan of international organization, had its origin in post-sixteenth-century international relations ideas, that both internal and international federal ideas share hostility to basic aspects of national state supremacy. The oddities of internal federalism reflect its origins in international federalism, that is, a theory of treaties and alliances among nations. Notions of contract and secession provide supports for dissolution of federal states, while the success of federal states provides false hopes for "international quasi federalisms." Thus are undue weakness in the national state and undue hope of strength in the international organization fostered
Federalism · International law · International relations · International relations theory · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Secession · Sociology · Sovereign state · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Territorial integrity · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |