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Sovereignties

Contemporary Theory and Practice

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Introduction The Meaning of Sovereignty: The Politics and Ownership of the Concept

  3. Contemporary Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
    2. The Metaphor of Sovereignty

      • Raia Prokhovnik
      Pages 118-149
    3. The Politics of Sovereignty

      • Raia Prokhovnik
      Pages 150-180
  4. Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
    2. Less is More: Sovereignty in Europe

      • Raia Prokhovnik
      Pages 183-246
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 247-264

About this book

Raia Prokhovnik develops a strong argument for sovereignty as a robust concept with many conceptualizations, and capable of further fruitful reconceptualization. The book explores contemporary theoretical developments and current political issues around sovereignty that have crucial practical and institutional implications.

Reviews

'As state power falters, sovereignty attracts increasing cross-disciplinary interest, but often unsurely grounded in the history of ideas. Prokhovnik's lucid, erudite and innovative study corrects that omission.' - Neil Walker, Professor of European Law, European University Institute, Italy

'A formidably sophisticated work that makes a major contribution to the study of 'the political' - not just to the long-running debates on sovereignty' - Terrell Carver, University of Bristol, UK, Contemporary Political Theory

Authors and Affiliations

  • Open University, UK

    Raia Prokhovnik

About the author

RAIA PROKHOVNIK is Reader in Politics at the Open University, UK. Her research interests are in contemporary political theory, sovereignty, international relations theory, early modern political thought, feminist political theory, and citizenship. Her previous books are Spinoza and Republicanism (2004), Rational Woman (2002), and Rhetoric and Philosophy in Hobbes's 'Leviathan' (1991).

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