Cosmopolitanism, State Sovereignty and International Law and Politics:
A Theory
By
Jorge E. Núñez
Upcoming presentations
(including contact person in each case if you want to join us)
- Manchester, United Kingdom, Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University (Wednesday 6th March 2024). Hybrid presentation.
- Co-chairs: Dr Hasret Cetinkaya and Dr Damian Mather (Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University)
- Commentators: Dr Iain Brassington (Manchester Law School, The University of Manchester) and Dr Cecilia Juliana Flores Elizondo (Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University)
- Contact person: Dr Jorge E. Núñez j.nunez@mmu.ac.uk (please confirm whether you are attending in-person or online in advance)
- Madrid, Spain, Universidad Carlos III (Thursday 4th April 2024). In-person presentation. Contact person: Prof. Oscar Perez de la Fuente oscar@der-pu.uc3m.es
- Saint Petersburg, Russia, State University of Saint Petersburg (Thursday 18th April 2024) Hybrid presentation. Contact person: Prof. Mikhail Antonov mich.antonov@gmail.com
- Paris, France, Sciences Po (Monday 13th May 2024). In person presentation. Contact person: Prof. Guillaume Tusseau guillaume.tusseau@sciencespo.fr
Book description and general structure
If and when current models fail or consistently fall short of addressing global changes and crises, a requisite paradigm shift should be implemented. COVID-19 is one of several indicators that prove mankind as a whole needs to reframe crises, reassess situations and discard the frames of past paradigms. The outcomes of current fragmented and unidimensional analyses and responses to crises (as a result of the science of reference and its methodology and the agent in question, such as individuals, communities and states) cannot but have a limited significance in theory and practice.
Whether at the level of the individual or at the level of the state, local, regional and international communities are plural in fact and in law. On the surface, notions such as cosmopolitanism accommodate for this plurality, while central disciplines such as law, politics and international relations seem to struggle. Sovereignty, as a concept, plays a major role for individuals, communities and states. Indeed, sovereignty[1] appears to be absolute and imply distinctiveness and exclusionary relationships between agents. Conversely, cosmopolitanism seems to embrace diversity and bring different agents together.
The overall aim is to establish that sovereignty and cosmopolitanism can be compatible. More precisely, the author suggests that a unidimensional to multidimensional paradigm change would acknowledge (limited) sovereignty and (legal) cosmopolitanism as compatible, despite the prima facie tension between these two concepts. In practice, this would mean that states could retain their sovereignty and individuals would benefit from legal guarantees recognized beyond jurisdictional differences.
[1] The author’s previous works on sovereignty include Jorge E. Núñez, Territorial Disputes and State Sovereignty: International Law and Politics (London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2020); Jorge E. Núñez, “About the Impossibility of Absolute State Sovereignty. The Modern Era and the Early Legal Positivist Claim,” in: Luca Siliquini-Cinelli, ed., Legal Positivism in a Global and Transnational Age (Switzerland: Springer, 2019); Jorge E. Núñez, Sovereignty Conflicts and International Law and Politics: A Distributive Justice Issue (London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2017); Jorge E. Núñez, “A Solution to the Crimean Crisis: Egalitarian Shared Sovereignty applied to Russia, Ukraine, and Crimea, Europe-Asia Studies (2017); Jorge E. Núñez, “About the Impossibility of Absolute State Sovereignty: The Middle Ages,” International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 28 (2015): 235-250; Jorge E. Núñez, “About the Impossibility of Absolute State Sovereignty: The Early Years,” International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 27 (2014): 645-664; Jorge E. Núñez, “Sovereignty Conflicts and the Desirability of a Peaceful Solution: Why Current International Remedies are not the Solution,” in: David A. Frenkel, ed., Selected Issues in Modern Jurisprudence (Athens: ATINER, 2016); Jorge E. Núñez, “Sovereignty Conflicts as a Distributive Justice Issue: The Egalitarian Shared Sovereignty and a New Mode of Governance for Crimea,” in Legal Theory: Comprehension of Sovereignty in Russia, Western Europe, and the USA in the Conditions of Globalization (Ivanovo State University, 2015); Jorge E. Núñez, “Sovereignty Conflicts as a Distributive Justice Issue,” in: David A. Frenkel, ed., Selected Issues in Public Private Law (Athens: ATINER, 2015); Jorge Emilio Núñez, “The Origins of Sovereignty in the Hellenic World,”in; David A. Frenkel, ed., International Law, Conventions and Justice (Athens: ATINER, 2011).
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Saturday 3rd February 2024
Dr Jorge Emilio Núñez
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