"This book asks whether sovereignty can guarantee international equality by exploring the discourses of sovereignty and their reliance on the notions of civilisation and savagery in two historical colonial encounters: the French explorations of Canada in the 16th century and the…
"This book addresses a prime challenge facing the international community: how to address governance gaps in fragile states. When governments fail to provide law and order and other basic public services, their citizens suffer, and threats to international security can emerge. O…
In fragile states, domestic and international actors sometimes take the momentous step of sharing sovereign authority to provide basic public services and build the rule of law. While sovereignty sharing can help address gaps in governance, it is inherently difficult, risking re…
In fragile states, domestic and international actors sometimes take the momentous step of sharing sovereign authority to provide basic public services and build the rule of law. While sovereignty sharing can help address gaps in governance, it is inherently difficult, risking re…
"This book addresses a prime challenge facing the international community: how to address governance gaps in fragile states. When governments fail to provide law and order and other basic public services, their citizens suffer, and threats to international security can emerge. O…
"This book addresses a prime challenge facing the international community: how to address governance gaps in fragile states. When governments fail to provide law and order and other basic public services, their citizens suffer, and threats to international security can emerge. O…
"A critical analysis of the philosophy of sovereignty from Hobbes through Derrida, arguing that we need to re-invent sovereignty as a motive for democratic political action while remaining alert to its dangers, specifically its relationship to violence"--.
"A critical analysis of the philosophy of sovereignty from Hobbes through Derrida, arguing that we need to re-invent sovereignty as a motive for democratic political action while remaining alert to its dangers, specifically its relationship to violence"--
Sovereignty is usually seen as either the assertion of national rights in the face of external challenge or the cruel license of unaccountable power. In philosophy, sovereignty has been presented as the earthly manifestation of a potentially limitless, preexisting power, usually…
"A critical analysis of the philosophy of sovereignty from Hobbes through Derrida, arguing that we need to re-invent sovereignty as a motive for democratic political action while remaining alert to its dangers, specifically its relationship to violence"--
Le site de l'éditeur indique : "In 1499, the duchy of Milan had known independence for one hundred years. But the turn of the sixteenth century saw the city battered by the Italian Wars. As the major powers of Europe battled for supremacy, Milan, viewed by contemporaries as the …
Part I. Politics: The temporality of the state -- Urban construction and social control as capture -- Delegitimizing the Sforza -- Part II. Property: Land and ownership -- Protecting and suing -- Document destruction and fraud -- Part III. People: Elite displacements -- Holy sov…
"In 1499, Milan was an independent state with a stable government. But over the next thirty years, it descended into chaos amid the Italian Wars. John Gagné details Milan's social and political breakdown. The Renaissance may have been the cradle of the modern nation-state, but i…
A new history of how one of the Renaissance's preeminent cities lost its independence in the Italian Wars.In 1499, the duchy of Milan had known independence for one hundred years. But the turn of the sixteenth century saw the city battered by the Italian Wars. As the major power…
A new history of how one of the Renaissance's preeminent cities lost its independence in the Italian Wars.In 1499, the duchy of Milan had known independence for one hundred years. But the turn of the sixteenth century saw the city battered by the Italian Wars. As the major power…
"In 1499, Milan was an independent state with a stable government. But over the next thirty years, it descended into chaos amid the Italian Wars. John Gagné details Milan's social and political breakdown. The Renaissance may have been the cradle of the modern nation-state, but i…
by McGonagle, Tarlach, Schauer, Frederick F., Oster, Jan, Simon, Joel, Bollinger, Lee C., Callamard, Agnès, Anite, Catherine, Arsène, Séverine, Arun, Chinmayi, Avezdjanov, Bach, Bang, Amalie, Botero-Marino, Catalina, Coliver, Sandra, Cooley, Alexander, Danbury, Richard, Jaramillo-Otoya, Sofía, Johnson, Hawley, McCully, Jonathan, Mendel, Toby, Noorlander, Peter, Parmar, Sejal, Penagos, Emmanuel Vargas, Reventlow, Nani Jansen, Witchel, Elisabeth
The United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 proclaimed a vision of freedom of expression exercised regardless of frontiers. Nonetheless, laws and norms regarding the freedom or limits of expression are typically established and understood at the national le…
Présentation de l'éditeur : "The United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 proclaimed a vision of freedom of expression exercised regardless of frontiers. Nonetheless, laws and norms regarding the freedom or limits of expression are typically established and …
