"Refinery explosions. Accounting scandals. Bank meltdowns. All of these catastrophes - and many more - might rightfully be blamed on corporations. In response, advocates have suggested reforms ranging from increased government regulation to corporate codes of conduct to stop cor…
In Corporate Sovereignty, Joshua Barkan argues that corporate power should be rethought as a mode of political sovereignty. Situating analysis of U.S., British, and international corporate law alongside careful readings in political and social theory, he demonstrates that the An…
The purpose of this book is to enter into the history of the mental-social phenomena that are the word sovereignty and the myth of Westphalia. Given the circularity of language, the project proposes to examine the reality-creating role of language, as an organic instrument of so…
Based on a doctoral dissertation in international law at the U. of Cambridge (UK), this work examines the concepts of "sovereignty" and "Westphalia" (as in the peace congress that ended the Thirty Years War in Europe and upon which the basis of "sovereignty" rests) as historical…
The purpose of this book is to enter into the history of the mental-social phenomena that are the word sovereignty and the myth of Westphalia. Given the circularity of language, the project proposes to examine the reality-creating role of language, as an organic instrument of so…