The state of sovereignty

The State of Sovereignty examines how the nation-state became the prevailing form of governance in the world today. Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and addressing colonization and decolonization around the globe, these essays argue that sovereignty is a set of historically contingent practices, and not something that accrues naturally to states. The contributors explore the different ways in which sovereign political forms have been defined and have defined themselves, placing recent debates about nations and national identity within a broader history of sovereignty, territory, and legality.

שנה

2008

שפה

English

סדרה

21st century studies -- v. 3

הוצאה

Indiana University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

296

ISBN

9780253352316

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