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Book SynopsisSovereignty as Value is one of the first books to examine sovereignty using solely a normative approach. Through fourteen original essays, the book seeks to understand its viability in a globalized world, thus taking into account the inclusion of a language of rights, limitation and legitimacy. The authors’ focus is on whether sovereignty as a normative concept might be understood as a criterion of legitimate power and authority; as a foundational concept of public ethics applied to political and legal institutions. How should notions of legitimacy be linked with the notion of sovereignty? In what manner is sovereignty challenged by territoriality and territorial control? How does sovereignty relate to political legitimacy? Are all the forms of sovereign authority legitimate? Does the project of advancing human rights globally conflict with the logic of exclusion inherent in the classic notion of national sovereignty? These are some of the questions that will be assessed in this collective volume.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Andre Santos Campos & Susana Cadilha
PART I SOVEREIGNTY AS ‘POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY’
1. Sovereignty, the People, and Popular Sovereignty
Diogo Pires Aurélio
2. Sovereignty, Some Skeptical Thoughts
Christopher W. Morris
3. Is Weak Popular Sovereignty Possible?
Ludvig Beckman
PART II SOVEREIGNTY AS LEGITIMACY
4. On Legitimate Sovereignty and Global Responsibility
Sergio Dellavalle
5. Sovereignty and Legitimate Authority: What Lies Beneath Content-Independence
Andre Santos Campos
6. The Paradoxical Value of Sovereignty in Post-Sovereign Society
Jiří Přibáň
7. On the Conceptual Link between Sovereignty and Legitimacy
Antonia Waltermann
PART III SOVEREIGNTY AS SELF-DETERMINATION
8. Beyond Westphalia: Democratic Conceptions of Sovereignty and Constellations of Plural Territories
Anna Meine
9. Justice, Self-Determination and Territorial Rights Forfeiture
Margaret Moore
10. Controlling Immigration in the Name of Self-Determination
David Miller
11. Sovereignty and the Value of Self-Determination
Eszter Kollar & Ayelet Banai
PART IV SOVEREIGNTY AS COSMOPOLITAN CHALLENGE
12. Citizen Responsibility, Sovereign States, and our Globalized World
Christine Hobden
13. Human Rights Require Yet Contest National Sovereignty: How a Human Rights Corporation Might Help
Benjamin Gregg
14. Critical Cosmopolitanism
Soraya Nour Sckell
Bibliography
Index
List of Contributors
