Sovereignties: History, Theory and Practice
Raia Prokhovnik
Language: English
Pages: 274
ISBN: 2:00146812
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Sovereignty is sometimes regarded as a concept with a fixed meaning, as something that can only be kept or lost, and which at the present time is under threat from globalisation, the erosion of the nation state and European integration. Raia Prokhovnik develops a strong argument for sovereignty as a robust concept with many conceptualisations in the past, and capable of further fruitful reconceptualisation in the future. The book explores the history of the
concept, contemporary theoretical developments, and current political
issues around sovereignty that have crucial practical and institutional implications.
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And intellectual context in which each conception of sovereignty was formed deserves to be listened to if we are really to discover the resources this legacy offers. Prokhovnik (2008 forthcoming) demonstrates this point. What is being distinguished here is a thin abstract concept and multiple thick conceptions. A circularity in the argument is avoided (the thin set of attributes derived from the thick set of conceptions identified as examples 10.1057/9780230593527 - Sovereignties, Raia.
Politics as sub-disciplines of Politics was that political theory was built on a tradition of normative theorising, whereas (in academic disciplinary terms) international relations in every real sense developed out of foreign policy and strategic studies and military history, all of which were closely derived from mainstream practice. As a result international relations has operated with a supposedly God’s-eye view, which is at the same time western-centric and moulded by realist and liberal.
International obligations or a universalised moral duty is given priority over domestic demands. The relational post-state proposal successfully avoids both the unpalatable play of naked self-interest and the unsustainable ‘sovereignty of morality over the political’ (Franceschet 2002, 31). As well as emphasising the political nature of interaction, the inter-dependence aspect of the proposal also provides a cooperative motive and intention for relations with other actors which supplants both.
Sovereign states are autonomous actors’. In consequence, Krasner identifies, sovereign states in the liberal paradigm, ‘have the right and the ability to enter into contractual relationships. These contracts, even though they are promises that 10.1057/9780230593527 - Sovereignties, Raia Prokhovnik Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to University of Melbourne - PalgraveConnect - 2011-05-27 The individual and domestic analogies may limit freedom of action, are an.
Of the sovereign state in the international context. Wendt points explicitly to the explanatory force accorded to metaphorical reasoning in the meaning of state sovereignty in the modern realist tradition. He describes the ‘productive analogy…between individuals and states’ that ‘is an accepted practice in mainstream international relations discourse’ (Wendt 1992, 397). The key role of metaphor in epistemological mapping Turning now to the first part of the argument of this chapter, Walzer.