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Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Sovereignty

Author: Marinos Diamantides; Michel Rosenfeld; Giuseppe Martinico
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781803926346
Published In: June 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This Research Handbook offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of sovereignty as one of the most contested concepts in law and politics. Bringing together leading scholars from a wide range of traditions, it examines sovereignty not only as a legal doctrine and political claim, but also as a symbolic form.

Chapters trace the epigenesis of sovereignty from Ancient Greece, Rome and Byzantium to the modern state, revealing how religious, metaphysical and philosophical ideas shaped its development. A unique comparative section explores Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Confucian, Indigenous and settler-colonial traditions, showing how different worlds imagine authority, legitimacy and collective self-rule. The volume also investigates the functional, normative and symbolic dimensions of sovereignty in contemporary constitutionalism, including debates on democratic authority, European integration, secession, illiberalism and populism. Further contributions analyse sovereignty’s entanglement with exceptionalism, labour, biopolitics and trans-constitutionalism. The concluding chapters examine why sovereignty persists as a powerful political imaginary, assessing its critiques and re-articulations—from political theology and relational ethics to feminist, anarchist and decolonial perspectives.

The Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Sovereignty is an essential resource for scholars and students of law, political theory, intellectual history and international relations, as well as practitioners concerned with constitutionalism and global governance.

PART I. EPIGENESIS: SOVEREIGNTY IN EUROPEAN HISTORY, RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY

Power and legitimation: ideas of ‘sovereignty’ in classic Athens 11

Antoni Abat i Ninet

Sovereignty and empire under Rome 29

Clifford Ando

Sovereignty in Byzantium: concepts and practices 40

Anthony Kaldellis

The nexus between sovereignty and the rise of the modern state 57

Kostas Chrysogonos

The phantom of sovereignty in contemporary political philosophy 74

Seyla Benhabib

PART II. SOVEREIGNTY BEYOND EUROPE

Contesting sovereignty: indigenous legal and political responses to settler colonialism in Canada 94

Amy Swiffen

Shared sovereignty and shared humanity in the Jewish rabbinic tradition: a forgotten tradition 112

Suzanne Last Stone

Perfect match or impossible union: Islamic conceptions of sovereignty 126

Masoud Zamani and Majid Nikouei

Sovereignty from Confucian perspectives 144

Wen-Chen Chang and Pei-Jung Li

10.

The politics of law and sovereignty in colonial India: dharma, artha, and the ideological origins of the Republic of India 159

Sunil Purushotham

PART III FUNCTIONAL AND SYMBOLIC DIMENSION OF SOVEREIGNTY

11.

Caught between theoretical and practical reason: Immanuel Kant’s ‘inscrutable’ sovereign 182

Panu Minkkinen

12.

Sovereignty’s trajectory within the bounds of modern democratic constitutionalism 194

Michel Rosenfeld

13.

Sovereignty and the European Union: an enduringly awkward fit 218

Neil Walker

14.

Secession and sovereignty 236

Costanza Margiotta

15.

Sovereignty, illiberalism, and populism 252

Giuseppe Martinico

PART IV. SOVEREIGNTY IN ITS CONTESTED CONTEMPORARY SETTINGS

16.

Sovereignty and exceptionalism: rights, constitutions and security 284

Chris Thornhill

17.

Between over-sovereignty and under-sovereignty: symbolic force and transconstitutional limits of state sovereignty 303

Marcelo Neves

18.

Labour as constituent power 321

Emilios Christodoulidis

19.

Biopower and sovereignty in Foucault and Agamben 342

Tom Frost

PART V. WHY SOVEREIGNTY?

20.

For a critique of sovereignism 361

Nadia Urbinati

21.

The epigenesis of the sovereign fantasy: from political theology to relational exposure 375

Marinos Diamantides

22.

International relations and the myth of sovereignty as equality: difference and the hierarchies of race and civilisation in the making of sovereignty 405

Xavier Mathieu

23.

Reclaiming power: anarchism, sovereignty and indigenous thought 422

James R. Martel

24.

The context of the governed: popular sovereignty as the projection of “democracy” 433

Zoran Oklopcic

25.

Feminist perspectives on sovereignty 452

Ruth Houghton