Description
| Product ID: | 9781009010009 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Sovereignty Cartel |
| Authors: | Author: J. Samuel Barkin |
| Page Count: | 270 |
| Subjects: | Political science and theory, Political science & theory, International relations, Public international law: international organizations and institutions, International relations, International organisations & institutions |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Often we hear about sovereignty as competitive, requiring protection from other states. Barkin argues that states are invested in sovereignty as a property exclusive to states, above any competition. Sovereignty is a collusion, a cartel, through which states maintain otherwise-unjustifiable exclusive property-related privileges. Sovereignty is the subject of many debates in international relations. Is it the source of state authority or a description of it? What is its history? Is it strengthening or weakening? Is it changing, and how? This book addresses these questions, but focuses on one less frequently addressed: what makes state sovereignty possible? The Sovereignty Cartel argues that sovereignty is built on state collusion – states work together to privilege sovereignty in global politics, because they benefit from sovereignty''s exclusivity. This book explores this collusive behavior in international law, international political economy, international security, and migration and citizenship. In all these areas, states accord rights to other states, regardless of relative power, relative wealth, or relative position. Sovereignty, as a (changing) set of property rights for which states collude, accounts for this behavior not as anomaly (as other theories would) but instead as fundamental to the sovereign states system. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-08-12 |
