The frontier between the two States in the area where the two plots in dispute are situated presents certain unusual features. Whilst the frontier in general is a linear one, in the area north of the Belgian town of Turnhout there are a number of enclaves formed by the Belgian commune of BaerleDuc and the Netherlands commune of Baarle-Nassau. The territory of the Belgian commune of Baerle-Duc i...

In this article I introduce a framework for understanding the political effects of globalization on labor. While the globalization literature is rife with references to the effects of sovereignty from global trade and capital networks, there is surprisingly little written about the effects of increased labor mobility on national sovereignty. To fill this void, I adapt Albert Hirschman’s (1970) ...

The doctrine of permanent sovereignty over natural resources is a hugely consequential one in the contemporary world, appearing to grant nation-states both jurisdiction-type rights and rights of ownership over the resources to be found in their territories. But the normative justification for that doctrine is far from clear. This article elucidates the best arguments that might be made for perm...

This paper takes up the question of secrecy and sovereignty in Derrida’s final seminar on The Beast and the Sovereign. Focusing primarily on Derrida’s readings of Lacan and Celan in Volume I, it argues that, for Derrida, we should distinguish between the lie (or what Lacan calls ‘trickery’ or ‘feigning feint’), and the secret (or what Celan calls ‘the secret of an encounter’), and understand th...

There is substantial agreement among contributors to this volume that the body of rights and rules that goes generally by the name of law is changing. Municipal law is becoming more responsive to changes in the supranational setting. Think, for example, of the influence of international human rights law and environmental conventions, or the effect of EU law on member states of the Union. It is ...

Since the early 2000s, international development cooperation principles emphasise recipient countries’ ownership of policies, donors’ alignment with the recipients’ administrative processes, and harmonisation of donor processes. Overall, this should enhance the development policy sovereignty in the Pacific Island countries and polities. Since 2011 researchers from Victoria University, Massey Un...

There has been growing policy interest in social justice issues related to both health and food. We sought to understand the state of knowledge on relationships between health equity--i.e. health inequalities that are socially produced--and food systems, where the concepts of 'food security' and 'food sovereignty' are prominent. We undertook exploratory scoping and mapping stages of a 'meta-nar...

 The UN has adopted a 2 pronged attack upon national sovereignty & democracy involving both a top down government strategy as well as a bottom up community driven strategy.  The top down strategy involves the use of international treaties, incorporated into Australian legislation, to force compliance with UN dictates and thereby erode national sovereignty and democracy. This strategy is well ...

This paper examines how global interdependencies and the consolidation of a human rights discourse are transforming national sovereignty. Social researchers frequently address the supremacy of state sovereignty and the absoluteness of human rights as mutually exclusive categories. However, rather than presupposing that a universal rights discourse is necessarily leading to the demise of soverei...

The article discusses the aspects of establishment of food sovereignty from the regional point of view. Herewith, it is mentioned that the established food sovereignty of a state should be based on food sovereignty of regions as separate administrative and territorial units. The most prioritized field of development of agro-industrial complex is rational distribution and efficient specializatio...