Globalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy, and Constitutionalism
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Sovereignty and the sovereign state are
often seen as anachronisms; Globalisation and Sovereignty challenges this view.
Jean L. Cohen analyses the new sovereignty regime emergent since the 1990s
evidenced by the discourses and practice of human rights, humanitarian
intervention, transformative occupation and the UN targeted sanctions regime
that blacklists alleged terrorists. Presenting a systematic theory of
sovereignty and its transformation in international law and politics, Cohen
argues for the continued importance of sovereign equality. She offers a theory
of a dualistic world order comprising an international society of states and a
global political community in which human rights and global governance
institutions affect the law, policies and political culture of sovereign states.
She advocates the constitutionalisation of these institutions, within the
framework of constitutional pluralism. This book will appeal to students of
international political theory and law, political scientists, sociologists,
legal historians and theorists of constitutionalism.
