Democratic Sovereignty: Authority, Legitimacy, and State in a Globalizing Age

by Weinert; Matthew S.

• ISBN13: 9780415771689
• ISBN10: 0415771684
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This new book argues that sovereignty, generally defined as the supreme authority in a political community, has a neglected democratic dimension that highlights the expansion of substantive individual rights and freedoms at home and abroad. Offering an historically based assessment of sovereignty that neither reifies the state nor argues sovereignty and the state are eroding under globalizing processes, the book maintains that sovereignty norms have continually changed throughout the history of the sovereign state. Matthew Weinert links international legal developments that restrict and coordinate sovereignty practices with an ethical undercurrent in International Relations, one such example is the creation of the International Criminal Court in 2002. Drawing on seven additional historical case studies, he outlines how campaigns informed by a commitment to the common good, or at the very least by opposition to harmful state policies, can be and have been efficacious in transforming the normative basis of sovereignty. Democratic Sovereigntywill be of great interest to students working in the fields of sovereignty, international history, ethics, globalization and international relations.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Organization	p. 9
Case selection	p. 12
Democratic sovereignty: theory	p. 17
Sources	p. 19
Introduction	p. 19
Sovereignty's origins	p. 20
Constance and early-modern international relations	p. 24
Sovereignty and state	p. 24
Nation	p. 27
Early models of sovereignty	p. 33
Hierarchical sovereignty: Bodin	p. 33
Confederative sovereignty: Althusius	p. 40
Singular sovereignty: Hobbes	p. 44
Progressive sovereignty: Hegel	p. 50
Summary	p. 55
Democratic and state sovereignty: two competing conceptions	p. 59
Introduction	p. 59
Two competing conceptions	p. 61
Logic	p. 61
Space	p. 71
Time	p. 75
Ethics	p. 76
Conclusion	p. 87
Structuring democratic sovereignty	p. 89
Architectonic impulses	p. 89
First level ordering	p. 92
Second level ordering: definition and legitimacy	p. 94
Constitutive-defining principles	p. 94
Regulative principles of legitimacy	p. 99
Third level ordering: scope	p. 103
Conclusion	p. 105
Democratic sovereignty: history	p. 109
Early history	p. 111
Introduction	p. 111
Religious liberty	p. 113
Slave trade abolition	p. 119
The monarchical principle	p. 128
Conclusion	p. 135
Sovereignty in the twentieth century	p. 136
Introduction	p. 136
The democratic principle	p. 136
Human rights norms	p. 146
International criminal law and the International Criminal Court	p. 154
"Conflict diamonds" and international diamond certification	p. 161
Sovereignty and the environment	p. 165
Conclusion	p. 173
Democratic sovereignty reconsidered	p. 177
Democratic sovereignty in a global world	p. 179
Democratic sovereignty and normative international transformation	p. 179
Just political order	p. 186
Conclusion	p. 194
Select global common good measures	p. 201
Notes	p. 206
Bibliography	p. 218
Index	p. 239
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