Sovereignty in Action

Administrative / Constitutional Law

Sovereignty in Action

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

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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?

Table of Contents

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
8. A positive or negative conception of sovereignty? Marcel Gauchet, Benjamin Constant and liberal democracy Nora Timmermans
9. Political idolatry: the relation of Schmitt's two claims in Political Theology Stephanie Frank
Index.
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