Reclaiming Sovereignty

Sovereignty is undoubtedly one of the most disputed and controversial concepts in politics today. What does it mean to say that a state, a people or an individual is sovereign? In this book. twelve contributors, each specialists in their own area. tackle these questions in different ways. Underlying the range and diversity of their responses is a common problem: how does sovereignty relate to society and the state?

The first part focuses upon contemporary developments in British politics, the European Union. Northern Ireland and South Africa. The second explores state sovereignty from an international perspective, while the third part looks toward detaching sovereignty from the state. Feminist arguments about the individual self and the exploitation prostituted women are interrogated along with a democratic analysis of popular organizations and a novel assessment of the question of sovereignty and animal rights.