Law, Power, and the Sovereign State: The Evolution and Application of the Concept of Sovereignty Unknown - 1995
by Fowler, Michael Ross; Bunck, Julie Marie
From the publisher
In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet bloc, it is timely to ask what continuing role, if any, the concept of sovereignty can and should play in the emerging "new world order." The aim of Law, Power, and the Sovereign State is both to counter the argument that the end of the sovereign state is close at hand and to bring scholarship on sovereignty into the post-Cold War era. The study assesses sovereignty as status and as power and examines the issue of what precisely constitutes a sovereign state.
In determining how a political entity gains sovereignty, the authors introduce the requirements of de facto independence and de jure independence and explore the ambiguities inherent in each. They also examine the political process by which the international community formally confers sovereign status. Fowler and Bunck trace the continuing tension of the "chunk and basket" theories of sovereignty through the history of international sovereignty disputes and conclude by considering the usefulness of sovereignty as a concept in the future study and conduct of international affairs. They find that, despite frequent predictions of its imminent demise, the concept of sovereignty is alive and well as the twentieth century draws to a close.
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- Title Law, Power, and the Sovereign State: The Evolution and Application of the Concept of Sovereignty
- Author Fowler, Michael Ross; Bunck, Julie Marie
- Binding unknown
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
- Date 1995-10
- ISBN 9780271014708
About the author
Michael Ross Fowler teaches in the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville and is the author of Thinking About Human Rights: Contending Approaches to Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy and Winston Churchill: Philosopher and Statesman (1987 and 1985).
Julie Marie Bunck is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville and the author of Fidel Castro and the Quest for a Revolutionary Culture in Cuba (Penn State, 1994).
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