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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"state sovereignty"”.
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The changing paradigm of state sovereignty In the international system
The system of state relations in the international system was established at the end of the Forty Years War, which culminated in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. The treaty was based on sovereignty, which is rooted in the principle of non-intervention by other states in the internal affairs of …
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Redefining state sovereignty: The complexities of Humanitarian intervention and the Responsibility to Protect
At the time this statement was made by the former Secretary General of the United Nations, the international community was engulfed in a debate concerning humanitarian intervention and its effect on state sovereignty. Recent interventions in states such as East Timor, Haiti and Kosovo had sparked …
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Governmentality, Biopolitics, and State Sovereignty: the Spatial Dialectic Production of Uyghur during the `War on Terror`
… between governmentality, biopolitics and the state manifests itself discursively and materially within the realm of sovereignty over territory and at the level of the population. This thesis is specifically concerned with the relational contexts of the People’s Republic of China during the …
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Examining the impact of the 'Responsibility to Protect' doctrine on state sovereignty in contemporary international law
The principle of state sovereignty is the cornerstone upon which international law has traditionally been constructed, in particular with regards to the twin principles of sovereign equality and the prohibition of external interference in the domestic jurisdiction of a state. The increasing …
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Re-politicizing State Sovereignty in Global Governance: A Political Economy of Transparency in the Oil Sectors of Gabon and Ghana
… transnational corporations (TNCs) and other non-state actors has gained an undisputed momentum in the fields of International Political Economy (IPE) and global governance, thus challenging realist notions of the state as the main actor in International Relations (IR). This dissertation argues …
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Sovereign Misconceptions: A Theoretical Analysis of the Perceived Impact of the International Criminal Court on the Institution of State Sovereignty
… but also because it places the individual, not states, responsible under international law. It is, however, this independent, permanent nature of the Court which sparked fears within the society of states that the Court may in some manner serve to erode the state sovereignty. The purpose of this …
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Sovereignty, Law, and Capital in the Age of Globalization
… a comprehensive model of contemporary nation-state sovereignty. To do so, it examines the mutually constitutive relationship between sovereignty and present-day globalization as well as the role of law and capital in creating, maintaining, and driving that relationship.</p><p>The scholarly …
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Safeguarding a liberal system of states : Reinterpreting states' freedoms in increasing interdependence
… law is how to deal with situations where one state's policies affect another state's domestic affairs. The traditional answer is that international law is a liberal system centred on relative sovereignty, in which states' freedom to exercise their sovereignty (positive freedom) is inherently …
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Suffering and sovereignty: civil conflict, convert aid and international humanitarian law
… people in insurgent-controlled areas of another state without the consentof the government in question. The purpose is to find out how uninvited humanitarian relief operations (covert aid) can be justified given the existing legal treaties and recent developments in customary international law. …
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Balancing state sovereignty and the protection of human rights: a case study on the impact of the requirements of state consent and the exercise of political will on the functioning of the human rights systems of the African Union and the Southern African Development Community
… most commonly through multilateralism. States have since abandoned notions of self-reliance in favour of interdependency and collaboration, leading to a proliferation of international, regional, and sub-regional multilateral organizations. However, the definition of ‘multilateralism' …
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Mass schooling, Nation Building and the Sovereignty of the Kenyan state
… with the principles of nation building and state sovereignty. The investigation involved developing eight multiple regression models. Each model utilized one dependent variable, one independent variable and two control variables. The dependent variables were the average boys and the average …
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In Search of a Definition for International Terrorism: Balancing Sovereignty and Cosmopolitanism
… forces of international law developments: State sovereignty and cosmopolitan ideals. These dynamics, which often conflict, have been playing a key role in the formation of international law in general and the formulation of definitions for international crimes in particular. As such, the …
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Rethinking The Responsibility To Protect: Libya As A Case Study [before doctoral defense]
… is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on sovereignty, how should we respond to a Rwanda, to a Srebrenica, to gross and systematic violations of human rights that affect every precept of our common humanity?” (Annan, 2000). This question highlights the complex and often controversial nature …
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Foreigners and the Bio-Political State: Case Studies of Hungarian and Bosnian Refugees in Switzerland
… implicated in the resolution of the problem of state sovereignty. This paper clarifies how foreign groups can be used by the state to reconstitute the nation in such a way that vulnerabilities are mended. Michel Foucault's racism and bio-politics are used as conceptual tools to gain insight on …
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The effectiveness of access and benefit-sharing legislation in South Africa: practical considerations for national regimes
… objectives of the convention that provide for state sovereignty over a country's indigenous biological resources. This dissertation presents the results from an evaluation of ABS legislation and its implementation within South Africa. Key objectives are to analyze the implementation of …
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The international criminal court and the responsibility to protect
… violence and the same complementary approach to state sovereignty. As such, they are activated when a state fails to deal with international crimes perpetrated under its jurisdiction. The activity of the Court and the implementation of the doctrine experience similar problems of implementation …
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Anti-Americanism, World Politics, and German-U.S. Relations
… to the superpower's perceived intrusion on state sovereignty. Radical anti-Americanism is a Leninist or radical Islamic response to U.S. power. I hypothesize that anti-Americanism in German is primarily a political reaction to the policies of the Bush administration. However the negative …
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