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Title The concept of the state in international relations : philosophy, sovereignty, cosmopolitanism / edited by Robert Schuett and Peter M.R. Stirk
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 247 pages)
Series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture
Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
Contents Introduction: The concept of the State in international relations / Peter M.R. Stirk -- 1. International law and statehood: a performative view / Janis Grzybowski and Martti Koskenniemi -- 2. The State as a universe of discourse / Peter J. Steinberger -- 3. Sovereignty and the personality of the State / Jens Bartelson -- 4. The State as urban myth: governance without government in the global South / Oliver Jütersonke and Moncef Kartas -- 5. Decolonising sovereignty: globalisation and the return of hyper-sovereignty / John M. Hobson -- 6. The concept of the State as a community of liability / Peter M.R. Stirk -- 7. From global governance to global stateness / William E. Scheuerman -- 8. Open societies, cosmopolitanism and the Kelsenian State as a safeguard against nationalism / Robert Schuett
Summary A critical reassessment of the concepts of the state and sovereignty in international relations theory. The concept of the state plays a central role in international relations, particularly in realist and neo-realist approaches. Yet, the meaning of the state is persistently taken to be self-evident by both advocates of the sovereign state and its critics. This volume counters this trend. It systematically considers the nature of the state, the concept of sovereignty and the challenges globalisation and cosmopolitanism. Featuring contributions from some of the most reputed theorists of the state, the essays in this collection give you a coherent and, at the same time, distinctively pluralist set of original reflections on the role and nature of the state
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject State, The.
International relations.
Sovereignty.
international relations.
sovereignty.
PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
International relations
Sovereignty
State, The
Staat
Souveränität
Internationale Politik
Politische Philosophie
Staat.
Außenpolitik.
Weltpolitik.
Internationales politisches System.
Internationale Politik.
Souveränität.
Philosophie.
Suveränitet.
Staten.
Internationella relationer.
Form Electronic book
Author Schuett, Robert, editor, contributor.
Stirk, Peter M. R., 1954- editor, contributor.
LC no. 2014495023
ISBN 0748693637
9781474405058
1474405053
9781785390593
1785390597
9781474408721
1474408729
0748693629
9780748693627
9780748693634
Other Titles State in international relations