This edited book explores diverse contestations and transformations of sovereignty around the world. Sovereignty plays a central role in modern political though

Why do political actors willingly give up sovereignty to another state, or choose to resist, sometimes to the point of violence? Jesse Dillon Savage demonstrate

State sovereignty is an inherently social construct. The modern state system is not based on some timeless principle of sovereignty, but on the production of a

This book is a critical inquiry into sovereignty and argues that the meaning and functions performed by this concept have changed significantly during the past

Sovereignty, originally the figure of 'sovereign', then the state, today meets new challenges of globalization and privatization of power.