Sovereignty Conflicts and International Law and Politics
A Distributive Justice Issue
Previously:
About the Book
BOOK PREVIEW: Chapter One: Introduction.
BOOK PREVIEW: Chapter One: General structure.
Introduction
The starting point of the
project is, unsurprisingly, the concept of ‘sovereignty’. However, this concept
presents a problem: that sovereignty is often seen as absolute, unlimited and
hence not shareable. This Chapter intends to demonstrate that there is no such
a thing as absolute sovereignty—i.e. that limited
sovereignty is the norm, though the nature of the limitations varies. Ergo, if
sovereignty can be limited then whatever it entails might be shared.
Given the importance of the
idea of sovereignty to the subject and argument of the monograph, this Chapter
will need to give (i) a full and rigorous analysis of the concept of
‘sovereignty’ and, in doing so, (ii) consider leading accounts of the notion.
It is worth noting at this point that the concept of ‘sovereignty’ is not
crucial per se for this monograph except in that it has limitations.
Therefore, in order to give a full analysis of sovereignty and to show that it is
always limited—hence shareable—the former (i) will be done with a conceptual
analysis; the latter (ii), through identifying specific theorists or bodies of
literature that take sovereignty to be absolute and a brief overview of a few
major thinkers who consider sovereignty to be limited.
More preview posts coming in 2017.
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