State Sovereignty as Social Construct

By: Thomas J. Biersteker (Editor), Cynthia Weber (Editor)

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Paperback | 5 February 1996

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State sovereignty is an inherently social construct. The modern state system is not based on some timeless principle of sovereignty, but on the production of a normative conception that links authority, territory, population, and recognition in a unique way, and in a particular place (the state). The unique contribution of this book is to describe and illustrate the practices that have produced various sovereign ideals and resistances to them. The contributors analyze how the components of state sovereignty are socially constructed and combined in specific historical contexts.

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"This useful collection poses an important intellectual challenge to the dominant epistemology...and the central substantive concern...of international politics. The contributors perceptively employ a social constructivist approach to unpack the concept of state sovereignity and reinterpret its several constituent dimensions: recognition, territory, population, authority." S. Mozaffar, Choice

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List of figures	p. ix
List of contributors	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xii
The social construction of state sovereignty	p. 1
Contested sovereignty: the social construction of colonial imperialism	p. 22
Beyond the sovereignty dilemma: quasi-states as social construct	p. 50
The sovereign state system as political-territorial ideal: historical and contemporary considerations	p. 81
Sovereignty and the nation: constructing the boundaries of national identity	p. 121
Sovereignty, nationalism, and regional order in the Arab states system	p. 148
Binding sovereigns: authorities, structures, and geopolitics in Philadelphian systems	p. 190
Hierarchy under anarchy: informal empire and the East German state	p. 240
Reconstructing the analysis of sovereignty: concluding reflections and directions for future research	p. 278
Index	p. 287
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