Sovereignty Under Challenge: How Governments Respond

by Glazer,Nathan

• ISBN13: 9780765801401
• ISBN10: 076580140X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Sovereignty -- the authority of a state to wield ultimate power over its territory, its citizens, its institutions -- is everywhere undergoing change as states respond in various ways to the challenges posed, from above and below. "Above" the state is the widening net of international institutions and treaties dealing with human rights, trade, investment, and monetary affairs; and "below" it are rising claims within states from long-resident groups discontented with the political order and from new migrants testing its authority. Sovereignty under Challenge deals with a range of such challenges and responses, analyzed in authoritative studies by leading scholars.The introductory chapter sets forth the theme that sovereignty is asserted clearly, but often unpredictably, when governments respond to challenge. It suggests ways of classifying these responses as variables that help explain the changing nature of sovereignty. Part 1, "The Citizen and the State, " treats the rising tide of dual citizenship and the concerns this arouses in the United States; the work of national human rights commissions in Asia; and the challenge posed to the state by the Falungong movement in China. The two chapters in Part 2, "The Government as Decision-Maker, " examine Japan's response to global warming and the problems of the World Health Organization in orchestrating collaboration among Southeast Asian states in implementing infectious disease control. Part 3, "Sovereignty and Culture, " looks at conflicts engendered by outside change on indigenous economic, cultural, and legal institutions in India, Fiji, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The chapters in Part 4, "Sovereignty and the Economy, " analyze the economicand cultural instability induced by Chinese migration to Russia's far east; the impact on state sovereignty brought about by transnational regulatory campaigns and social activism; the question of indigenous land rights

Table of Contents

Introductory Note	ix
Introduction
Sovereignty in Transition	3	(30)
John D. Montgomery
Part 1: The Citizen and the State
Dual Citizenship as a Challenge to Sovereignty	33	(22)
Nathan Glazer
National Human Rights Commissions in Asia	55	(28)
Sonia Cardenas
Challenging the State: Falungong and Regulatory Dilemmas in China	83	(26)
Jae Ho Chung
Part 2: The Government as Decision-Maker
From Heat to Light?: Japan's Changing Response to Global Warming	109	(34)
Jeffrey P. Broadbent
Orchestrating Collaboration Among Contending States: The World Health Organization and Infectious Disease Control in Southeast Asia	143	(24)
Jeremy Shiffman
Part 3: Sovereignty and Culture
Challenging Sovereignty: India, TRIPS, and the WTO	167	(30)
Ulrich Camen
Charles Norchi
Domesticating Foreign Ideas in the Adoption of New Institutions: Evidence from Fiji and Indonesia	197	(24)
Donald L. Horowitz
Judicial Process and Dilemmas of Legitimacy and Sovereignty: The Malaysian Case in Comparative Perspective	221	(40)
Michael G. Peletz
Part 4: Sovereignty and the Economy
Desecuritizing Sovereignty: Economic Interest and Responses to Political Challenges of Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East	261	(30)
Mikhail A: Alexseev
Doing Well by Doing Good? Transnational Regulatory Campaigns, Social' Activism, and Impacts on State Sovereignty	291	(30)
Ronnie Lipschutz
Indigenous Land Rights: Who Controls the Philippine Public Domain?	321	(24)
Rosemary Morales-Fernholz
Sovereignty On Line: The Challenges of Transnational Corporations and Information Technology in Asia	345	(30)
Dennis A. Rondinelli
Conclusion
State Sovereignty: Alive and Well	375	(16)
Milton J. Esman
About the Authors	391	(4)
Index	395