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State Sovereignty as Social Construct (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 46) by Thomas J. Biersteker and Cynthia Weber is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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State sovereignty is an inherently social construct. The modern state system is not based on some timeless principle of sovereignty, but on the production of a normative conception which links authority, territory, population (society, nation), and recognition in a unique way, and in a particular place (the state). Attempting to realize this ideal entails a great deal of hard work on the part of statespersons, diplomats, and intellectuals. The ideal of state sovereignty is a product of the actions of powerful agents and the resistances to those actions by those located at the margins of power. The unique contribution of this book is to describe, theorize, and illustrate the practices which have socially constructed, reproduced, reconstructed, and deconstructed various sovereign ideals and resistances to them. The contributors analyse how all the components of state sovereignty - not only recognition, but also territory, population, and authority - are socially constructed and combined in specific historical contexts.

Who reads State Sovereignty as Social Construct (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 46)?

Author

Thomas J. Biersteker and Cynthia Weber

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521565998

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Politics, Social_sciences