Home
Law
International Law
Competing Sovereignties

Competing Sovereignties

Name: Competing Sovereignties
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9780415678148
Price: 1828.45 HKD
Availability: OutOfStock
Author: Richard Joyce
ISBN: 9780415678148

By Richard Joyce

Routledge July 2012

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9780415678148
Publisher: Routledge
Publication: July 2012
Format: Hardback , 284 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Competing Sovereignties provides a critique of the concept of sovereignty in modernity in light of claims to determine the content of law at the international, national and local levels. In an argument that is illustrated through an analysis of debates over the control of intellectual property law in India, Richard Joyce considers how economic globalization and the claims of indigenous communities do not just challenge national sovereignty - as if national sovereignty is the only kind of sovereignty - but in fact invite us to challenge our conception of what sovereignty ‘is’. Combining theoretical research and reflection with an analysis of the legal, institutional and political context in which sovereignties 'compete', the book offers a reconception of modern sovereignty - and, with it, a new appreciation of the complex issues surrounding the relationship between international organisations, nation states and local and indigenous communities.

Introduction: The crisis of modern sovereignty; PART 1: POSITION; Chapter 1: Modern sovereignty and the nation state: a failure of grounds; Chapter 2:Autopositioning: the groundless ground of modern sovereignty; PART 2: RELATION; Chapter 3: The constitutive function of relation; Chapter 4: The relation of sovereigns at the national and international levels: India and the WTO; Chapter 5: The relation of sovereigns at the international, national and local levels; Conclusion