This volume examines and critiques several of the classical theoretical foundations of
domestic and international organization, concentrating on the contestable conceptions of …

Using the Western tradition of metaphysical and political thought as a backdrop, Critique of
Sovereignty (a work in 4 volumes) re-examines the concept of sovereignty in order to better …

Nothing is today more greatly needed than clarity about the theory that has come to
dominate our understanding of national and international life: The theory of state sovereignty …

This article argues for the recovery and re-incorporation of lost voices and debates into the
history of political thought by focusing on the issue of sovereignty. It begins by examining …

The constitution of (inter) national political order is undisputedly a creation of power. But
how? And can raising the central question of power, once more, cast any new light on the …

In the opening pages of Carlyle's incomparable study of the French Revolution, the death of
Louis XV foreshadows the imminent collapse of the monarchy and the entire ancien regime …

Sovereignty is one of the foremost institutions of our world: it has given political life a
distinctive constitutional shape that virtually defines the modern era and sets it apart from …

Following up on the fables and stories surrounding political sovereignty—once theological,
now often nationalist—Peter Gratton's The State of Sovereignty takes aim at the central …

After Sovereignty addresses the vexed question of sovereignty in contemporary social,
political, and legal theory. The emergence, and now apparent implosion, of international …

We are encountering today an ever more widespread belief that a world map composed of
sovereign states no longer provides—if indeed it ever did—a useful conception of how the …