Description
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that explores the different ways in which sovereign political forms have been defined and have defined themselves, placing recent debates about nations and national identity within a broader history of sovereignty, territory, and legality.
Trade Review[This book's] contribution lies in the rich and well-researched empirical case-study chapters that demonstrate in detail the various different ways in which territory, populations, and authority structures have been organized relative to one another in different places and times.Vol. 23.2 April 2010
-- Eric A. Heinze * University of Oklahoma *
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Sovereignty and the Study of States Douglas Howland and Luise White
2. Sovereignty on the Isthmus: Federalism, U.S. Empire, and the Struggle for Panama during the California Gold Rush Aims McGuinness
3. The Foreign and the Sovereign: Extraterritoriality in East Asia Douglas Howland
4. Wilsonian Sovereignty in the Middle East: The King-Crane Commission Report of 1919 Leonard V. Smith
5. Colonial Sovereignty in Manchuria and Manchukuo David Tucker
6. Alternatives to Empire: France and Africa after World War II Frederick Cooper
7. The Ambiguities of Sovereignty: The United States and the Global Human Rights Cases of the 1940s and 1950s Mark Philip Bradley
8. What Does It Take to Be a State? Sovereignty and Sanctions in Rhodesia, 1965–1980 Luise White
9. Legal Fictions after Empire John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan
10. Sovereignty after Socialism at Europe's New Borders Keith Brown
11. Environmental Security, Spatial Preservation, and State Sovereignty in Central Africa Kevin C. Dunn
12. The Paradox of Sovereignty in the Balkans Aida A. Hozic
13. The Secret Lives of the "Sovereign": Rethinking Sovereignty as International Morality Siba N. Grovogui
List of Contributors
Index
