Sovereignty in world politics: A glance at the conceptual and historical landscape

Political Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 431-456

  Jackson, Robert ^a  

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DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.00211     Document Type: Article

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1. 1 A. P. d'Entreves, Natural Law (London, Hutchinson, 1970), p. 67.
2. 2 The expression is Laski's. See H. Laski. A Grammar of Politics (London, Allen & Unwin, 1978).
3. 3 J. L. Brierly, The Law of Nations (London,Oxford University Press, 1938), p. 40.
4. 4 F. H. Hinsley, Sovereignty (New York, Oxford, 1966). p. 26.
5. 5 F. H. Hinsley, 'The Concept of Sovereignty and the Relations between States', in W. J. Stankiewicz, ed., In Defense of Sovereignty (New York, Oxford University Press, 1969), 275.
6. 6 See R. Falk, 'The Grotian moment', International Insights, 13 (Fall 1997), 3-34 and my reply to that claim in R. Jackson, 'The Grotian moment in world jurisprudence', International Insights, 13 (Fall 1997), 35-56.
7. 6 See R. Falk, 'The Grotian moment', International Insights, 13 (Fall 1997), 3-34 and my reply to that claim in R. Jackson, 'The Grotian moment in world jurisprudence', International Insights, 13 (Fall 1997), 35-56.
8. 7 M. Wight, Systems of States (Leicester, Leicester University Press, 1977) and H. Bull, The Anarchical Society (London, Macmillan, 2nd ed., 1995).
9. 8 Sir George Clark, Early Modern Europe (New York, Oxford, 1960), pp. 27-8.
10. 9 E H Kantorowics, The King's Two Bodies (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1957).
11. 10 Clark, Early Modern Europe, p. 28.
12. 11 M. Keen, Medieval Europe (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1991), p. 262.
13. 12 J. Canning, A History of Medieval Political Thought, 300-1450 (London, Routledge, 1996), p. 84.
14. 13 As quoted by Canning, A History of Medieval Political Thought, p. 19.
15. 14 This is a modification of the notion of universitas theorized by M. Oakeshott, 'The Rule of Law', in his On History and Other Essays (Oxford, Blackwell, 1983); also see M. Oakeshott, On Human Conduct (Oxford, Clarendon, 1975).
16. 14 This is a modification of the notion of universitas theorized by M. Oakeshott, 'The Rule of Law', in his On History and Other Essays (Oxford, Blackwell, 1983); also see M. Oakeshott, On Human Conduct (Oxford, Clarendon, 1975).
17. 15 Wight, Systems of States, p. 47.
18. 16 Keen, Medieval Europe, p. 12.
19. 17 Canning, A History of Medieval Political Thought, pp. 181-82.
20. 18 Canning, A History of Medieval Political Thought, p. 185. Also see Keen, Medieval Europe, p. 314.
21. 18 Canning, A History of Medieval Political Thought, p. 185. Also see Keen, Medieval Europe, p. 314.
22. 19 Wight, Systems of States, p. 151.
23. 20 See J. Vincent, 'Realpolitik', in J. Mayall (ed.), The Community of States (London, George Allen & Unwin, 1982). pp. 73-85.
24. 21 J. Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, vol. 1 (New York, Harper & Row, 1958), pp. 120-42.
25. 22 Keen, Medieval Europe, p. 318.
26. Also see Wight, 'The origins of our states-system: chronological limits', in Systems of States, pp. 129-52; also the relevant discussion on pp. 110-14.
27. 23 S. Wolin, Politics and Vision (Boston, Little, Brown, 1960), p. 143.
28. 24 See Norman Davies, Europe: A History (London, Pimlico, 1997), p. 490.
29. 25 J Bodin, Six Books of the Commonwealth (M. J. Tooley, trans.), (Oxford, Blackwell, no date). 26 Bodin, Six Books of the Commonwealth, book I, ch. 10, p. 49.
30. 27 Wight, Systems of States, p. 151. A similar view is taken by Keen, Medieval Europe, pp. 314-21.
31. 27 Wight, Systems of States, p. 151. A similar view is taken by Keen, Medieval Europe, pp. 314-21.
32. 28 F. H. Hinsley, 'The Concept of Sovereignty and the Relations between States', in Stankiewicz, In Defense of Sovereignty, p. 285.
33. 29 'Well into at least the seventeenth century, the juristic, theological and overtly political works of medieval scholastics continued to be prime sources for the discussion of political thought ... The writings of ... Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), amongst very many others, illustrated this trend.' Canning, A History of Medeival Political Thought, p. 186.
34. 30 See A. Osiander, The States System of Europe, 1640-1990 (Oxford, Clarendon, 1994), pp. 27-8.
35. 31 Wight, Systems of States, p. 152.
36. 32 Osiander, The States System of Europe, p. 120.
37. 33 Keen, Medieval Europe, p. 318.
38. 34 Wedgwood, The Thirty Years War, p. 42.
39. 35 A. Watson, The Evolution of International Society (London, Routledge, 1992), ch. 17.
40. 36 H. Kissinger, Diplomacy (New York, Simon & Schuster, 1994), p. 20.
41. 37 For a discussion of monism and pluralism in the legal systems of Europe see N. MacCormick, 'Liberalism, nationalism and the post-sovereign state', Political Studies, (1996), XLIV, 553-67.
42. 38 M. N. Shaw, Title to Territory in Africa (Oxford, Clarendon, 1986), p. 17.
43. 39 W. E. Hall, as quoted by Wight, Systems of States, p. 115.
44. 40 James Madison in The Federalist No. 10, reprinted in R. M. Hutchins (ed.), Great Books of the Western World (Chicago, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1952), vol. 43, pp. 49-53.
45. 41 Wight, Systems of States, p. 159.
46. 42 Jennifer Jackson Preece, 'Ethnic cleansing as an instrument of nation-state creation', Human Rights Quarterly, 20 (1998), 817-42.
47. 43 See Jennifer Jackson Preece, National Minorities and the European Nation-States System (Oxford, Clarendon, 1998).
48. 44 Robert H. Jackson and Carl G. Rosberg, 'Why Africa's weak States persist', World Politics, 35 (1982), 1-24.
49. 45 For the origins and development of this practice in the emergence of independent states in the new world see Fred Parkinson, 'Latin America', in Robert H. Jackson and Alan James (eds), States in a Changing World (Oxford, Clarendon, 1993), pp. 240-61. Also see A. Kacowicz, 'The Impact of Norms in the International Society: The Latin American Experience' (delivered at the Leonard Davis Institute Conference on International Norms, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 26-27 May 1997).
50. 45 For the origins and development of this practice in the emergence of independent states in the new world see Fred Parkinson, 'Latin America', in Robert H. Jackson and Alan James (eds), States in a Changing World (Oxford, Clarendon, 1993), pp. 240-61. Also see A. Kacowicz, 'The Impact of Norms in the International Society: The Latin American Experience' (delivered at the Leonard Davis Institute Conference on International Norms, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 26-27 May 1997).
51. 46 As Fred Parkinson remarks, 'The principle of uti possidetis juris was a great help in enabling the region to weather the storm of state succession'. Parkinson, 'Latin America', p. 241.
52. 47 A. Pellet, 'The opinions of the Badinter Arbitration Commitee', Europian Journal of International Law, 3 (1992), 178-85.
53. 48 E. Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Oxford, Blackwell, 1993), p. 74.
54. 49 Jennifer Jackson Preece, 'Minority rights in Europe: from Westphalia to Helsinki', Review of International Studies, 23 (January 1997) 75-92.
55. 50 Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, No. 6.
56. 51 That is not to suggest that the Americans turned away from war in their continent. They obviously did not. They fought the British Empire in the north and the Mexican republic in the south. But the most important wars for them were their wars of territorial conquest as they moved the frontier westward and, of course, the American civil war.
57. 52 K. J. Alter, ''Who are the "masters of the treaty"?: European governments and the European Court of Justice', International Organization, 52 (Winter 1998), 121-47.
58. 53 N. MacCormick, 'Liberalism, nationalism and the post-sovereign state', Political Studies, XLIV (1996), p. 555.
59. 54 For an argument that sovereignty is a bargaining resource that is being snared among EU states see Robert O. Keohane, 'Hobbes's Dilemma and Institutional Change in World Politics: Sovereignty in International Society', in H.-H. Holm and G. Sorensen (eds), Whose World Order: Uneven Globalization and the End of the Cold War (Boulder CO, Westview, 1995), pp. 165-86.
60. 55 MacCormick, 'Liberalism, nationalism and the post-sovereign state', pp. 561-7.
61. 56 Quoted by J. H. H. Weiler, 'European neo-constitutionalism: in search of foundations for the European constitutional order', Political Studies, XLIV (1996), 520-1.
62. 57 Weiler, 'European neo-constitutionalism: in search of foundations for the European constitutional order', pp. 526-8.
63. 58 MacCormick, 'Liberalism, nationalism and the post-sovereign state', p. 555.
64. 59 This argument is presented and rejected by Weiler.
65. 60 Weiler, 'European neo-constitutionalism: in search of foundations for the European constitutional order', p. 518.
66. 61 U. Preuss, 'Two challenges to European citizenship', Political Studies, XLIV (1996), 543-4.
67. 62 Keohane, 'Hobbes's Dilemma and Institutional Change in World Politics: Sovereignty in International Society', p. 177.
68. 63 Keohane, 'Hobbes's Dilemma and Institutional Change in World Politics: Sovereignty in International Society', p. 177.
69. 64 I am indebted to Will Bain for this important point.
70. 65 H. Bull, The Anarchical Society (London, Macmillan, 2nd ed., 1995).
71. 66 James Madison in The Federalist, No. 51, reprinted in Hutchins, Great Books of the Western World, 43, 162-5.
72. 67 I. Berlin, 'Two Concepts of Liberty', in Four Essays on Liberty (London, Oxford University Press, 1969), pp. 118-72.
73. 68 R. Jackson, Quasi-States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990).
74. 69 Montaigne, The Complete Essays of Montaigne, D. M. Frame (trans.) (Standford, Stanford University Press, 1958), book 3, ch. 13, p. 816. This translation is from P. Burke, Montaigne (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981), p. 33.
75. 70 See Oakeshott, On History and Other Essays, p. 145.
76. 71 Montaigne, The Complete Essays of Montaigne, book 3, ch. 13, p. 816.