Sovereignty: Change and continuity in a fundamental institution

Political Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 590-604

  Sørensen, Georg ^a  

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DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.00218     Document Type: Article

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1. 1 J. D. B. Miller, The World of States: Connected Essays (London, 1981), p. 16.
2. 2 R. Denemark, 'A Note From the Program Chair', ISA Conference Program, Minneapolis 1998, P. 5.
3. 3 Only a selection of contributions can be mentioned here: F. H. Hinsley, Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn, 1986); A. James, Sovereign Statehood: the Basis of International Society (London, Allen and Unwin, 1986); R. Lapidoth, 'Sovereignty in transition', Journal of International Affairs, 45 (1992), 50-74; S. D. Krasner, 'Sovereignty: an institutional perspective', Comparative Political Studies, 21 (1988), 66-94: N. Onuf, 'Sovereignty: outline of a conceptual history', Alternatives, 16 (1991), 425-46; R. H. Jackson, Quasi-states: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990); R. O. Keohane, 'Hobbes's Dilemma and Institutional Change in World Politics: Sovereignty in International Society', in H. H. Holm and G. Sørensen (eds), Whose World Order? Uneven Globalization and the End of the Cold War (Boulder CO, Westview, 1995); G. Lyons and M. Mastanduno (eds), Beyond Westphalia? Sovereignty and International Intervention (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1995); J. Bartelson, A Genealogy of Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995); S. Barkin and B. Cronin, 'The state and the nation: changing norms and the rules of sovereignty in international relations', International Organization, 49 (1995), 479-510.
4. 3 Only a selection of contributions can be mentioned here: F. H. Hinsley, Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn, 1986); A. James, Sovereign Statehood: the Basis of International Society (London, Allen and Unwin, 1986); R. Lapidoth, 'Sovereignty in transition', Journal of International Affairs, 45 (1992), 50-74; S. D. Krasner, 'Sovereignty: an institutional perspective', Comparative Political Studies, 21 (1988), 66-94: N. Onuf, 'Sovereignty: outline of a conceptual history', Alternatives, 16 (1991), 425-46; R. H. Jackson, Quasi-states: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990); R. O. Keohane, 'Hobbes's Dilemma and Institutional Change in World Politics: Sovereignty in International Society', in H. H. Holm and G. Sørensen (eds), Whose World Order? Uneven Globalization and the End of the Cold War (Boulder CO, Westview, 1995); G. Lyons and M. Mastanduno (eds), Beyond Westphalia? Sovereignty and International Intervention (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1995); J. Bartelson, A Genealogy of Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995); S. Barkin and B. Cronin, 'The state and the nation: changing norms and the rules of sovereignty in international relations', International Organization, 49 (1995), 479-510.
5. 3 Only a selection of contributions can be mentioned here: F. H. Hinsley, Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn, 1986); A. James, Sovereign Statehood: the Basis of International Society (London, Allen and Unwin, 1986); R. Lapidoth, 'Sovereignty in transition', Journal of International Affairs, 45 (1992), 50-74; S. D. Krasner, 'Sovereignty: an institutional perspective', Comparative Political Studies, 21 (1988), 66-94: N. Onuf, 'Sovereignty: outline of a conceptual history', Alternatives, 16 (1991), 425-46; R. H. Jackson, Quasi-states: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990); R. O. Keohane, 'Hobbes's Dilemma and Institutional Change in World Politics: Sovereignty in International Society', in H. H. Holm and G. Sørensen (eds), Whose World Order? Uneven Globalization and the End of the Cold War (Boulder CO, Westview, 1995); G. Lyons and M. Mastanduno (eds), Beyond Westphalia? Sovereignty and International Intervention (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1995); J. Bartelson, A Genealogy of Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995); S. Barkin and B. Cronin, 'The state and the nation: changing norms and the rules of sovereignty in international relations', International Organization, 49 (1995), 479-510.
6. 3 Only a selection of contributions can be mentioned here: F. H. Hinsley, Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn, 1986); A. James, Sovereign Statehood: the Basis of International Society (London, Allen and Unwin, 1986); R. Lapidoth, 'Sovereignty in transition', Journal of International Affairs, 45 (1992), 50-74; S. D. Krasner, 'Sovereignty: an institutional perspective', Comparative Political Studies, 21 (1988), 66-94: N. Onuf, 'Sovereignty: outline of a conceptual history', Alternatives, 16 (1991), 425-46; R. H. Jackson, Quasi-states: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990); R. O. Keohane, 'Hobbes's Dilemma and Institutional Change in World Politics: Sovereignty in International Society', in H. H. Holm and G. Sørensen (eds), Whose World Order? Uneven Globalization and the End of the Cold War (Boulder CO, Westview, 1995); G. Lyons and M. Mastanduno (eds), Beyond Westphalia? Sovereignty and International Intervention (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1995); J. Bartelson, A Genealogy of Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995); S. Barkin and B. Cronin, 'The state and the nation: changing norms and the rules of sovereignty in international relations', International Organization, 49 (1995), 479-510.
7. 3 Only a selection of contributions can be mentioned here: F. H. Hinsley, Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn, 1986); A. James, Sovereign Statehood: the Basis of International Society (London, Allen and Unwin, 1986); R. Lapidoth, 'Sovereignty in transition', Journal of International Affairs, 45 (1992), 50-74; S. D. Krasner, 'Sovereignty: an institutional perspective', Comparative Political Studies, 21 (1988), 66-94: N. Onuf, 'Sovereignty: outline of a conceptual history', Alternatives, 16 (1991), 425-46; R. H. Jackson, Quasi-states: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990); R. O. Keohane, 'Hobbes's Dilemma and Institutional Change in World Politics: Sovereignty in International Society', in H. H. Holm and G. Sørensen (eds), Whose World Order? Uneven Globalization and the End of the Cold War (Boulder CO, Westview, 1995); G. Lyons and M. Mastanduno (eds), Beyond Westphalia? Sovereignty and International Intervention (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1995); J. Bartelson, A Genealogy of Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995); S. Barkin and B. Cronin, 'The state and the nation: changing norms and the rules of sovereignty in international relations', International Organization, 49 (1995), 479-510.
8. 3 Only a selection of contributions can be mentioned here: F. H. Hinsley, Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn, 1986); A. James, Sovereign Statehood: the Basis of International Society (London, Allen and Unwin, 1986); R. Lapidoth, 'Sovereignty in transition', Journal of International Affairs, 45 (1992), 50-74; S. D. Krasner, 'Sovereignty: an institutional perspective', Comparative Political Studies, 21 (1988), 66-94: N. Onuf, 'Sovereignty: outline of a conceptual history', Alternatives, 16 (1991), 425-46; R. H. Jackson, Quasi-states: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990); R. O. Keohane, 'Hobbes's Dilemma and Institutional Change in World Politics: Sovereignty in International Society', in H. H. Holm and G. Sørensen (eds), Whose World Order? Uneven Globalization and the End of the Cold War (Boulder CO, Westview, 1995); G. Lyons and M. Mastanduno (eds), Beyond Westphalia? Sovereignty and International Intervention (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1995); J. Bartelson, A Genealogy of Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995); S. Barkin and B. Cronin, 'The state and the nation: changing norms and the rules of sovereignty in international relations', International Organization, 49 (1995), 479-510.
9. 3 Only a selection of contributions can be mentioned here: F. H. Hinsley, Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn, 1986); A. James, Sovereign Statehood: the Basis of International Society (London, Allen and Unwin, 1986); R. Lapidoth, 'Sovereignty in transition', Journal of International Affairs, 45 (1992), 50-74; S. D. Krasner, 'Sovereignty: an institutional perspective', Comparative Political Studies, 21 (1988), 66-94: N. Onuf, 'Sovereignty: outline of a conceptual history', Alternatives, 16 (1991), 425-46; R. H. Jackson, Quasi-states: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990); R. O. Keohane, 'Hobbes's Dilemma and Institutional Change in World Politics: Sovereignty in International Society', in H. H. Holm and G. Sørensen (eds), Whose World Order? Uneven Globalization and the End of the Cold War (Boulder CO, Westview, 1995); G. Lyons and M. Mastanduno (eds), Beyond Westphalia? Sovereignty and International Intervention (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1995); J. Bartelson, A Genealogy of Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995); S. Barkin and B. Cronin, 'The state and the nation: changing norms and the rules of sovereignty in international relations', International Organization, 49 (1995), 479-510.
10. 3 Only a selection of contributions can be mentioned here: F. H. Hinsley, Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn, 1986); A. James, Sovereign Statehood: the Basis of International Society (London, Allen and Unwin, 1986); R. Lapidoth, 'Sovereignty in transition', Journal of International Affairs, 45 (1992), 50-74; S. D. Krasner, 'Sovereignty: an institutional perspective', Comparative Political Studies, 21 (1988), 66-94: N. Onuf, 'Sovereignty: outline of a conceptual history', Alternatives, 16 (1991), 425-46; R. H. Jackson, Quasi-states: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990); R. O. Keohane, 'Hobbes's Dilemma and Institutional Change in World Politics: Sovereignty in International Society', in H. H. Holm and G. Sørensen (eds), Whose World Order? Uneven Globalization and the End of the Cold War (Boulder CO, Westview, 1995); G. Lyons and M. Mastanduno (eds), Beyond Westphalia? Sovereignty and International Intervention (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1995); J. Bartelson, A Genealogy of Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995); S. Barkin and B. Cronin, 'The state and the nation: changing norms and the rules of sovereignty in international relations', International Organization, 49 (1995), 479-510.
11. 3 Only a selection of contributions can be mentioned here: F. H. Hinsley, Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn, 1986); A. James, Sovereign Statehood: the Basis of International Society (London, Allen and Unwin, 1986); R. Lapidoth, 'Sovereignty in transition', Journal of International Affairs, 45 (1992), 50-74; S. D. Krasner, 'Sovereignty: an institutional perspective', Comparative Political Studies, 21 (1988), 66-94: N. Onuf, 'Sovereignty: outline of a conceptual history', Alternatives, 16 (1991), 425-46; R. H. Jackson, Quasi-states: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990); R. O. Keohane, 'Hobbes's Dilemma and Institutional Change in World Politics: Sovereignty in International Society', in H. H. Holm and G. Sørensen (eds), Whose World Order? Uneven Globalization and the End of the Cold War (Boulder CO, Westview, 1995); G. Lyons and M. Mastanduno (eds), Beyond Westphalia? Sovereignty and International Intervention (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1995); J. Bartelson, A Genealogy of Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995); S. Barkin and B. Cronin, 'The state and the nation: changing norms and the rules of sovereignty in international relations', International Organization, 49 (1995), 479-510.
12. 3 Only a selection of contributions can be mentioned here: F. H. Hinsley, Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn, 1986); A. James, Sovereign Statehood: the Basis of International Society (London, Allen and Unwin, 1986); R. Lapidoth, 'Sovereignty in transition', Journal of International Affairs, 45 (1992), 50-74; S. D. Krasner, 'Sovereignty: an institutional perspective', Comparative Political Studies, 21 (1988), 66-94: N. Onuf, 'Sovereignty: outline of a conceptual history', Alternatives, 16 (1991), 425-46; R. H. Jackson, Quasi-states: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990); R. O. Keohane, 'Hobbes's Dilemma and Institutional Change in World Politics: Sovereignty in International Society', in H. H. Holm and G. Sørensen (eds), Whose World Order? Uneven Globalization and the End of the Cold War (Boulder CO, Westview, 1995); G. Lyons and M. Mastanduno (eds), Beyond Westphalia? Sovereignty and International Intervention (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1995); J. Bartelson, A Genealogy of Sovereignty (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995); S. Barkin and B. Cronin, 'The state and the nation: changing norms and the rules of sovereignty in international relations', International Organization, 49 (1995), 479-510.
13. 4 R. O. Keohane, 'Multilateralism: an agenda for research', International Journal, 45 (1990), 732.
14. 5 The game metaphor is also employed in Jackson, Quasi-states, p. 34. My reflections on sovereignty games in this paper is greatly indebted to intense discussions with Robert Jackson.
15. 6 A distinction introduced by J. Rawls, 'Two concepts of justice', Philosophical Review, 64 (1955), 1-33; the use of it here is based on J. R. Searle, The Construction of Social Reality (London, Penguin, 1995).
16. 6 A distinction introduced by J. Rawls, 'Two concepts of justice', Philosophical Review, 64 (1955), 1-33; the use of it here is based on J. R. Searle, The Construction of Social Reality (London, Penguin, 1995).
17. 7 For a similar point, see D. Philpott, 'Westphalia, authority, and international society', Political Studies, 47 (1999), 566-89, p.567 (this issue).
18. 8 Searle, The Construction of Social Reality, p. 27.
19. 9 See A. James, 'The practice of sovereign statehood in contemporary international society', Political Studies, 47 (1999), 457-73 (this issue).
20. 10 Quoted from Jackson, Quasi-states, p. 53.
21. 11 C. de Visscher, Theory and Reality in Public International Law (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1968), p. 174-5.
22. 12 Jackson, Quasi-states, p. 53.
23. 13 A. James, 'The practice of sovereign statehood in contemporary international society', p. 462.
24. 14 H. Bull, The Anarchical Society (London, Macmillan, 1977), p. 13.
25. 15 Searle, The Construction of Social Reality, p. 51.
26. 16 H. Spruyt, The Sovereign State and its Competitors (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1994).
27. 17 C. Tilly, Coercion, Capital, and European States AD 990-1990 (Cambridge MA, Basil Blackwell, 1990).
28. 18 J. G. Ruggie, Constructing the World Polity (London, Routledge, 1998), p. 191.
29. 19 R. H. Jackson, 'Continuity and Change in the States System', in R. H. Jackson and A. James (eds), States in a Changing World (Oxford, Clarendon, 1993), pp. 346-69.
30. 20 J. A. Camilleri and J. Falk, The End of Sovereignty (Aldershot, Edward Elgar, 1992), pp. 28, 99.
31. 21 Keohane, 'Hobbes's Dilemma and Institutional Change', p. 172 (Keohane quotes H. Morgenthau).
32. 22 Jackson, Quasi-states, p. 32.
33. 23 Barkin and Cronin, 'The state and the nation', pp. 128, 111.
34. 24 C. Weber, Simulating Sovereignty: Intervention, the State and Symbolic Exchange (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 29-30.
35. 25 See S. D. Krasner, 'Westphalia and All That', in J. Goldstein and R. O. Keohane (eds), Ideas and Foreign Policy (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1993), pp. 235-64.
36. 26 Searle, The Construction of Social Reality, p. 27.
37. 27 Jackson, Quasi-states, p. 61.
38. 28 Some even argue that the situation of 'historically diffuse' principles of recognition continue right up to the present day; see Ø. Österud, 'The narrow gate: entry to the club of sovereign states', Review of International Studies, 23 (1997), 167-84. For the view that there is a detectable pattern in recognition practices, see K. Hyldelund, Anerkendelsesprincipper, MA thesis (Aarhus, Dept. of Political Science, 1997).
39. 28 Some even argue that the situation of 'historically diffuse' principles of recognition continue right up to the present day; see Ø. Österud, 'The narrow gate: entry to the club of sovereign states', Review of International Studies, 23 (1997), 167-84. For the view that there is a detectable pattern in recognition practices, see K. Hyldelund, Anerkendelsesprincipper, MA thesis (Aarhus, Dept. of Political Science, 1997).
40. 29 J. Mayall, 'Sovereignty, nationalism and self-determination', Political Studies, 47 (1999), 474-502, p.476 (this issue).
41. 30 Jackson, Quasi-states, p. 35.
42. 31 See for example Camilleri and Falk, The End of Sovereignty?, and Weber, Simulating Sovereignty.
43. 31 See for example Camilleri and Falk, The End of Sovereignty?, and Weber, Simulating Sovereignty.
44. 32 See for example James, 'The Practice of Sovereign Statehood'.
45. 33 See Jackson, Quasi-states.
46. 34 R. O. Keohane, 'Reciprocity in international relations', International Organization, 40 (1986), 1-27; the full definition offered by Keohane runs: 'Reciprocity refers to exchanges of roughly equivalent values in which the actions of each party are contingent on the prior actions of the others in such a way that good is returned for good, and bad for bad', p. 8.
47. 35 See for example D. Senghaas, The European Experience: a Historical Critique of Development Theory (Leamington Spa, Berg, 1985).
48. 36 'Infrastructural Power is the institutional capacity of a central state ... to penetrate its territories and logically implement decisions. This is collective power, "power through" society ... Infrastructural power is a two-way street: It also enables civil society parties to control the state ...', M. Mann, The Sources of Social Power, Vol. II (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 59.
49. 37 The historical development of this whole interplay between state and society is analysed in A. Giddens, The Nation-State and Violence (Cambridge, Polity, 1985), especially p. 205-6.
50. 38 K. J. Holsti, The State, War and the State of War (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996).
51. 39 K. N. Waltz, Theory of International Politics (Reading, Addison-Wesley, 1979), p. 96.
52. 40 Jackson, Quasi-states, p. 6.
53. 41 For an in-depth analysis, see Jackson, Quasi-states, and C. Clapham, Africa and the International System (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996).
54. 41 For an in-depth analysis, see Jackson, Quasi-states, and C. Clapham, Africa and the International System (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996).
55. 42 See foe example A. Roberts, Humanitarian Action in War, Adelphi Paper 305 (Oxford, Oxford university Press, 1996).
56. 43 See P. Hirst and G. Thompson, 'The problem of "globalization": international economic relations, national economic management and the formation of trading blocs', Economy and Society, 21 (1992), 341-72.
57. 44 See Keohane, 'Hobbes's Dilemma and Institutional Change'.
58. 45 G. Sørensen, Suverœnitet: Formel og faktisk (Copenhagen, Danish Institute for International Affairs, 1997).