Sovereignty Games Instrumentalizing State Sovereignty in Europe and Beyond

by Adler-Nissen, Rebecca; Gammeltoft-Hansen, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780230607750
• ISBN10: 0230607756
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book brings together genuine theoretical explorations and original case studies on the strategic use of state sovereignty in contemporary European and international politics. It suggests a new conceptual framework of 'sovereignty games' to understand how states and other actors are instrumentalizing claims to legal and political authority. While globalization, Europeanization and international legal regimes constrain the exercise of sovereignty, they also provide new opportunities for exploiting the relationship between power, legitimacy and territoriality. The volume covers different aspects of the use of sovereignty, ranging from the current 'war against terror' over immigration, refugee and monetary policies to struggles of authority between Member States and the European Union. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Rebecca Adler-Nissen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen is a policy advisor for the Danish Refugee Council and a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Law at the Danish Institute for International Studies

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
An Introduction to Sovereignty Games	p. 1
Theoretical Perspectives
The Variety of Sovereignty	p. 21
Sovereignty Before and After the Linguistic Turn	p. 33
Playing with Sovereignty: Examples from the Theory and Practice of International Law	p. 47
Vertical Sovereignty Games
Play Money? Contemporary Perspectives on Monetary Sovereignty	p. 63
Organized Duplicity? When States Opt Out of the European Union	p. 81
Federalism, Confederalism, and Sovereignty Claims: Understanding the Democracy Game in the European Union	p. 105
Horizontal Sovereignty Games
Sovereignty beyond Borders: Sovereignty, Self-Defense, and the Disciplining of States	p. 129
Securing Sovereignty by Governing Security through Markets	p. 151
The Refugee, the Sovereign, and the Sea: European Union Interdiction Policies	p. 171
Epilogue: Three Layers of a Contested Concept	p. 197
References	p. 211
Index	p. 235
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