On sovereignty and other political delusions / / Joan Cocks.
"Global forces are eroding the ability of states to exert sovereign control over their populations, territories, and borders. Yet when dominated subjects across the world dream of freedom, they continue to conceive of it in sovereign terms. Sovereign freedom haunts the imagination of oppressed...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Bloomsbury,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Theory for a Global Age Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (188 pages) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | "Global forces are eroding the ability of states to exert sovereign control over their populations, territories, and borders. Yet when dominated subjects across the world dream of freedom, they continue to conceive of it in sovereign terms. Sovereign freedom haunts the imagination of oppressed ethnic minorities, popular masses ruled by foreign powers or homegrown tyrants, indigenous peoples, and individuals chafing under customary or governmental restrictions. On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions draws on political theory and on two case studies -- the encounter between Anglo-American settlers and Native American tribes, and the search for Jewish sovereignty in Palestine -- to probe the allure of the idea of sovereign freedom and its self-defeating logic. It concludes by shifting its sights from political to economic sovereign power and by pursuing intimations of non-sovereign freedom in the contemporary age."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781780933566 9781780933573 9781780933542 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Joan Cocks. |