Nations, Conglomerates, Why after the breakup of such multinational states as and Empires the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia -whose The Tradeoff between Income republicsjustified their and Sovereignty decision by claiming that they wanted to regain their Branko Milanovic sovereignty did the new states express strong desire to join the European Union, thus dissipating the very sove...

Etymologically speaking, the word ‘democracy’ originates in the Greek language and means ‘the people’s government’. It is related to a political regime that is based on the people’s sovereignty. To ‘democratise’, in its turn, means ‘to make accessible to all classes of people; to make popular’. In this context, it seems to be very easy to make a link between democracy and the Internet, the worl...

This article focuses on how Canada’s French minority in Quebec developed a nationalist discourse and used its provincial state to strengthen its economic and political status within the federation. It presents the parameters that define contemporary Quebec nationalism and its evolution over the past four decades. The first part of the article deals with nationalism during the ‘Quiet Revolution’...

International norms governing appropriate conduct in cyberspace are immature, leaving politicians, diplomats, and military authorities to grapple with the challenges of defending against and executing hostilities in cyberspace. Cyberspace is unlike the traditional physical domains where actions occur at specific geographic places and times. Rules governing conduct in the traditional domains eme...

The academic study of sovereignty is undergoing a mini-renaissance. Stimulated by criticisms of classical conceptions of sovereignty in systemic theories of politics, scholars returned to sovereignty as a topic of inquiry in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Their studies are finally bearing fruit. This essay focuses on the new conceptions of sovereignty that are emerging and (1) discusses the fu...

This article distills the economic and current significance contained in the political economy of J.R. Commons. It compares descriptions of his three main works that discuss “sovereignty”: A Sociological View of Sovereignty (SVS), Legal Foundations of Capitalism (LFC), and Institutional Economics (IE). Through this comparison, we find that the role of sovereignty in his theory changed dramatica...

The concept of sovereignty currently dominates Indigenous affairs in the United States. The advancement and defense of sovereignty is quite arguably tribal nations' number one agenda, and sovereignty is a persistent focus of tribes' political, economic, legal, and social action. Sovereignty undergirds tribal gaming, natural resource management, and a wide variety of jurisdictional and political...

This paper considers the ways in which Iraq‘s territorial integrity has been invoked by the international community, how it has been violated by the US-led coalition both before and since 2003, and how these acts have called into question the future viability of the Iraqi state. The specific focus is on the first four years of the occupation. The paper contends that Iraq provides an instructive...

Food sovereignty has struggled to make inroads into changing the structures and processes underlying the corporate food regime. One reason is that scale is still underspecified in the politics, strategies, and theories of food sovereignty. We suggest that much can be learned from examining the multiple dimensions of scale inherent in ongoing food sovereignty struggles. A gap exists between thes...

I propose a concept of effective sovereignty to argue that states participate in sovereignty regimes that exhibit distinctive combinations of central state authority and political territoriality. Two basic conclusions, drawing from recent research in political geography and other fields, are that sovereignty is neither inherently territorial nor is it exclusively organized on a state-by-state b...