[PDF] Sovereignty Without Power eBook

Author : Leigh A. Gardner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1009190970

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What did independence mean during the age of empires? How did independent governments balance different interests when they made policies about trade, money and access to foreign capital? Sovereignty without Power tells the story of Liberia, one of the few African countries to maintain independence through the colonial period. Established in 1822 as a colony for freed slaves from the United States, Liberia's history illustrates how the government's efforts to exercise its economic sovereignty and engage with the global economy shaped Liberia's economic and political development over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing together a wide range of archival sources, Leigh A. Gardner presents the first quantitative estimates of Liberian's economic performance and uses these to compare it to its colonized neighbors and other independent countries. Liberia's history anticipated challenges still faced by developing countries today, and offers a new perspective on the role of power and power relationships in shaping Africa's economic history.

Author : Stephen D. Krasner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 2009-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135974772

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Stephen Krasner has been one of the most influential theorists within international relations and international political economy over the past few decades. This book is a collection of his key academic work as well as a meditation on his time in office.

Author : Leonard Lawlor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1318 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139867067

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The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon is a reference tool that provides clear and incisive definitions and descriptions of all of Foucault's major terms and influences, including history, knowledge, language, philosophy and power. It also includes entries on philosophers about whom Foucault wrote and who influenced Foucault's thinking, such as Deleuze, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Canguilhem. The entries are written by scholars of Foucault from a variety of disciplines such as philosophy, gender studies, political science and history. Together, they shed light on concepts key to Foucault and to ongoing discussions of his work today.

Author : Stewart Patrick
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815737823

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Now in paperback—with a new preface by the author Americans have long been protective of the country's sovereignty—all the way back to George Washington who, when retiring as president, admonished his successors to avoid “permanent” alliances with foreign powers. Ever since, the nation has faced periodic, often heated, debates about how to maintain that sovereignty, and whether and when it is appropriate to cede some of it in the form of treaties and the alliances about which Washington warned. As the 2016 election made clear, sovereignty is also one of the most frequently invoked, polemical, and misunderstood concepts in politics—particularly American politics. The concept wields symbolic power, implying something sacred and inalienable: the right of the people to control their fate without subordination to outside authorities. Given its emotional pull, however, the concept is easily high-jacked by political opportunists. By playing the sovereignty card, they can curtail more reasoned debates over the merits of proposed international commitments by portraying supporters of global treaties or organizations as enemies of motherhood and apple pie. Such polemics distract Americans from what is really at stake in the sovereignty debate: the ability of the United States to shape its destiny in a global age. The United States cannot successfully manage globalization, much less insulate itself from cross-border threats, on its own. As global integration deepens and cross-border challenges grow, the nation's fate is increasingly tied to that of other countries, whose cooperation will be needed to exploit the shared opportunities and mitigate the common risks of interdependence. The Sovereignty Wars is intended to help today's policymakers think more clearly about what is actually at stake in the sovereignty debate and to provide some criteria for determining when it is appropriate to make bargains over sovereignty—and how to make them.

Author : Leigh Gardner
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,24 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Liberia
ISBN : 9781009181099

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What did independence mean during the age of empires? How did independent governments balance different interests when they made policies about trade, money and access to foreign capital? Sovereignty without Power tells the story of Liberia, one of the few African countries to maintain independence through the colonial period. Established in 1822 as a colony for freed slaves from the United States, Liberia's history illustrates how the government's efforts to exercise its economic sovereignty and engage with the global economy shaped Liberia's economic and political development over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing together a wide range of archival sources, Leigh A. Gardner presents the first quantitative estimates of Liberian's economic performance and uses these to compare it to its colonized neighbors and other independent countries. Liberia's history anticipated challenges still faced by developing countries today, and offers a new perspective on the role of power and power relationships in shaping Africa's economic history.

Author : Jean Bodin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 1992-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521349925

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This volume translates four chapters of Bodin's Six livres de la république, a vast synthesis of comparative public law and politics.

Author : Don Herzog
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300252870

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Has the concept of sovereignty outlived its usefulness? Social order requires a sovereign: an actor with unlimited, undivided, and unaccountable authority. Or so the classic theory says. But without noticing, we’ve gutted the theory. Constitutionalism limits state authority. Federalism divides it. The rule of law holds it accountable. In vivid historical detail—with millions tortured and slaughtered in Europe, a king put on trial for his life, journalists groaning at idiotic complaints about the League of Nations, and much more—Don Herzog charts both the political struggles that forged sovereignty and the ones that undid it. He argues that it’s no longer a helpful guide to our legal and political problems, but a pernicious bit of confusion. It’s time, past time, to retire sovereignty.

Author : Daniel W. Hamilton
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 1459606248

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Americans take for granted that government does not have the right to permanently seize private property without just compensation. Yet for much of American history, such a view constituted the weaker side of an ongoing argument about government sovereignty and individual rights. What brought about this drastic shift in legal and political thoug...

Author : Robin Douglass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108421989

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The first book-length study in English of Thomas Hobbes's On the Citizen, containing twelve original essays by leading Hobbes scholars.

Author : Monroe E. Price
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 11,22 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262661867

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A study of the relationship between international media regulations and efforts by nation-states to assert sovereignty and shape media at home and abroad.