Sovereignty in Action

Name: Sovereignty in Action
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108483513
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Author: Bas Leijssenaar; Neil Walker
ISBN: 9781108483513

Edited by Bas Leijssenaar · Neil Walker

Cambridge University Press July 2019

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ISBN-13: 9781108483513
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: July 2019
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Sovereignty in premodern times evoked the dynastic figure of the 'sovereign' or territorial monarch. In modern times, it became a more abstract idea, referring to the power of the state, later of the people or 'the popular sovereign' as articulated and refined through constitutional arrangements.

Today these inherited understandings of sovereignty confront various new challenges, including those of globalization, privatization of power, and the rise of sub-state nationalism. An examination of key historical writers and trends from the seventeenth century onwards, including Hobbes, Bodin, Constant, Rousseau and Schmitt, brings out these developments and challenges.

Sovereignty remains a malleable and 'active' feature of the global configuration of power. Will sovereignty become a redundant concept over time, or will it remain a key part of the grammar of modern politics?

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction: sovereignty in action Bas Leijssenaar and Neil Walker

Part I. Theory in History:

1. Post-sovereignty? Dieter Grimm

2. When sovereigns stir Neil Walker

3. The people as popular manifestation Jason Frank

4. Sovereignty, action, autonomy Raf Geenens

Part II. History of Theory:

5. Liberal governmentality and the political theology of constitutionalism Miguel Vatter

6. Popular sovereignty: the people's two bodies Pasquale Pasquino

7. Nations against the people. Whose sovereign power? Olga Bashkina