The state of sovereignty [ territories, laws, populations

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Howland, Douglas , 1955- (Author), White, Luise (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press , c2009
Series:21st century studies v 3
Subjects:
Online Access:NetLibrary
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction : sovereignty and the study of states
  • 2. Sovereignty on the isthmus : federalism, U.S. empire, and the struggle for Panama during the California Gold Rush
  • 3. The foreign and the sovereign : extraterritoriality in East Asia
  • 4. Wilsonian sovereignty in the Middle East : the King-Crane Commission report of 1919
  • 5. Colonial sovereignty in Manchuria and Manchukuo
  • 6. Alternatives to empire : France and Africa after World War II
  • 7. The ambiguities of sovereignty : the United States and the global human rights cases of the 1940s and 1950s
  • 8. What does it take to be a state? : sovereignty and sanctions in Rhodesia, 1965-1980
  • 9. Legal fictions after empire
  • 10. Sovereignty after socialism at Europe's new borders
  • 11. Environmental security, spatial preservation, and state sovereignty in Central Africa
  • 12. The paradox of sovereignty in the Balkans
  • 13. The secret lives of the "sovereign" : rethinking sovereignty as international morality