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Problematic sovereignty : contested rules and political possibilities

Taking cognizance of the multiple, sometimes contradictory, components of the concept of sovereignty, this volume attempts to answer a fundamental question in international relations: to what extent does the concept of sovereignty inhibit the solution of some of the most pressing issues in the contemporary international order?
Print Book, English, ©2001
Columbia University Press, New York, ©2001
xiii, 367 p. ; 23 cm
9780231121798, 9780231121781, 0231121792, 0231121784
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Preface, by Stephen D. Krasner Problematic Sovereignty, by Stephen D. Krasner Sovereignty: The Practitioner's Perspective, by Abraham D. Sofaer and Thomas C. Heller Sovereignty from a World Polity Perspective, by John Boli The Issue of Sovereignty in the Asian Historical Context, by Mchel Oksenberg One Sovereign, Two Legal Systems: China and the Problem of Commitment in Hong Kong, by James McCall Smith The Struggle for Sovereignty between China and Taiwan, by Robert Madsen The Sovereignty Script: Red Book for Russian Revolutionaries, by Michael McFaul Belarus and the Flight from Sovereignty, by Coit Blacker and Condoleezza Rice Compromised Sovreignty to Create Sovereignty: Is Dayton Bosnia Futile Exercise or an Emerging Model?, by Susan L. Woodward The Road to Palestinian Sovereignty: Problematic Structures or Conventional Obstacles?, by Shibley Telhami Explaining Variation: Defaults, Coercion, Commitments, by Stephen D. Krasner