Jonathan Havercroft

Captives of Sovereignty

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book questions the theoretical assumptions of sovereignty and offers new ways to move the critiques of this subject forward.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9781107012875
• ISBN-10: 1107012872
• Artikelnr.: 33353846

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Havercroft is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Oklahoma. He held the Canadian Security and Defence Forum Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre of International Relations, University of British Columbia, in 2006-2007 and he was awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Council (Canada) Doctoral Fellowship for his dissertation research. Jonathan describes himself as an international political theorist and he draws upon contemporary and historical works of political philosophy to critique current problems in global politics. He has published articles and book chapters on Spinoza and the multitude, the struggle for recognition of indigenous rights under international law, space weaponization, and Wittgenstein and the meaning of liberty. His work has appeared in the journals Constellations and the Review of International Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: 1. A picture holds us captive
2. Sovereignty, judgment, and epistemic skepticism
3. Sovereignty, language, and ethical skepticism
4. Sovereignty, religious skepticism, and the theological-political problem
Part II: 5. Political authority and skepticism
6. Authority, criteria, and the new social contract
7. The claim of global community
Conclusion: authority without supremacy, community with contestation.