Globalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy, and Constitutionalism

by Jean L. Cohen and Jean-Louis Cohen

Book Overview

Sovereignty and the sovereign state are often seen as anachronisms; Globalization and Sovereignty challenges this view. Jean L. Cohen analyses the new sovereignty regime emergent since the 1990s evidenced by the discourses and practice of human rights, humanitarian intervention, transformative occupation and the UN targeted sanctions regime that blacklists alleged terrorists. Presenting a systematic theory of sovereignty and its transformation in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521148456
• ISBN13: 9780521148450
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.9"