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Sovereignty as Symbolic Form (Critical Issues in Global Politics) by Jens Bartelson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Sovereignty as Symbolic Form (Critical Issues in Global Politics) about?

This book is a critical inquiry into sovereignty and argues that the meaning and functions performed by this concept have changed significantly during the past decades, with profound implications for the ontological status of the state and the modus operandi of the international system as a whole. Although we have grown accustomed to regarding sovereignty as a defining characteristic of the modern state and as a constitutive principle of the international system, Sovereignty as Symbolic Form argues that recent changes indicate that sovereignty has been turned into something granted, contingent upon its responsible exercise in accordance with the norms and values of an imagined international community. Hence we need a new understanding of sovereignty in order to clarify the logic of its current usage in theory and practice alike, and its connection to broader concerns of social ontology: what kind of world do we inhabit, and of what kind of entities is this world composed? This book will be of interest to students of International Relations, Critical Security and International Politics.

Who reads Sovereignty as Symbolic Form (Critical Issues in Global Politics)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Jens Bartelson
Publisher
ROUTLEDGE TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP
Published
2014
Language
EN
ISBN
9781317685821
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Political Science, Government & Politics, Social_sciences

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