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Michael Keating - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Taking back control? Brexit and the territorial constitution of the United Kingdom
Journal of European Public Policy, 2021Co-Authors: Michael KeatingAbstract:Brexit aimed to restore Sovereignty to the United Kingdom. That rested on an interpretation of the UK as an internally integrated and externally bordered Sovereign State. Another interpretation is ...
Jordan Branch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Mapping the Sovereign State: Technology, Authority, and Systemic Change
International Organization, 2011Co-Authors: Jordan BranchAbstract:AbstractThis article examines the effect of cartography on the development of the modern State system. I argue that new mapping technologies in early modern Europe changed how actors thought about political space, organization, and authority, thus shaping the creation of Sovereign States and international relations. In particular, mapping was fundamental to three key characteristics of the medieval-to-modern shift: the homogenization of territorial authority, the linearization of political boundaries, and the elimination of nonterritorial forms of organization. Although maps have been interpreted as epiphenomenal to political change, each of these three transformations occurred first in the representational space of maps and only subsequently in the political practices of rulers and States. Based on evidence from the history of cartographic technologies and their use by political actors, the practices and texts of international negotiations, and the practical implementation of linearly bounded territoriality by States, this article argues that changes in the representational practices of mapmaking were constitutive of the early-modern transformation of the authoritative structure of politics. This explanation of the international system's historical transformation suggests useful new directions for investigations into the possibility of fundamental political change due to the economic, social, and technological developments of globalization.
Jonathan P Thomas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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bankruptcy proceedings for Sovereign State insolvency
2004Co-Authors: Jonathan P ThomasAbstract:This paper examines the main issues involved in translating domestic bankruptcy procedures to the Sovereign context. It considers some of the principles by which domestic bankruptcy procedures operate, and the extent to which they apply to international lending. Two recent proposals are considered in more detail, that of Krueger (A New Approach to Sovereign Debt Restructuring) and that of Pettifor (ch. 9/11, Resolving International Debt Crises - the Jubilee Framework for International Insolvency). The paper also considers the question of the ex ante effects of a procedure which makes default less costly, and concludes that despite a negative impact on the ability to borrow, the overall welfare effect need not be negative.
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bankruptcy proceedings for Sovereign State insolvency
The World Economy, 2004Co-Authors: Jonathan P ThomasAbstract:The paper examines the main issues involved in translating domestic bankruptcy procedures to the Sovereign context. It considers some of the principles by which domestic bankruptcy procedures operate, and the extent to which they apply to international lending. Two recent proposals are considered in more detail, that of Krueger (A New Approach to Sovereign Debt Restructuring) and that of Pettifor (Chapter 9/11? Resolving International Debt Crises—the Jubilee Framework for International Insolvency). The paper also considers the question of the ex ante effects of a procedure which makes default less costly, and concludes that despite a negative impact on the ability to borrow, the overall welfare effect need not be negative.
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bankruptcy proceedings for Sovereign State insolvency
2002Co-Authors: Jonathan P ThomasAbstract:The paper examines the main issues involved in translating domestic bankruptcy procedures to the Sovereign context. It considers some of the principles by which domestic bankruptcy procedures operate, and the extent to which they apply to international lending. Two recent proposals are considered in more detail, that of Krueger (A New Approach to Sovereign Debt Restructuring) and that of Pettifor (Chapter 9/11? Resolving International Debt Crises?the Jubilee Framework for International Insolvency).
Mary Bosworth - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the prison and national identity citizenship punishment and the Sovereign State
2013Co-Authors: Emma Kaufman, Mary BosworthAbstract:Over the past decade, nationality has become an increasingly central topic in incarceration practices. In England and Wales, foreign national prisoners are now identified to immigration authorities, transferred into specific prisons for ‘foreigners’, and in some cases, are detained indefinitely in prisons under immigration powers after the conclusion of their criminal sentences. These developments have been met and propelled by the growth of the immigration detention eState, which since 1993 has expanded to 10 times its original size. Today, at any given moment, more than 13,000 foreign nationals are incarcerated in a web of different custodial institutions, some governed by the criminal law, others beyond its reach. In this context, criminologists can no longer treat the prison as an institution bounded by the nation-State. Instead, we need to examine how the prison produces the nation-State and reaffirms its Sovereignty. Seeking to start that discussion, this chapter draws on the voices of prisoners and detainees to explore the prison’s role in migration control. Comparing testimonies from ‘foreigners’ in a range of British incarceration facilities, we argue that the prison works together with the detention centre to promote an exclusionary notion of British citizenship reifying the link between citizenship, Sovereignty, and rights.
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border control and the limits of the Sovereign State
Social & Legal Studies, 2008Co-Authors: Mary BosworthAbstract:As has been widely recognized and commented upon, border controls across Europe and America have been strenuously tightened since September 11th. In fact, of course, the movement of certain non-cit...
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Border Control and the Limits of the Sovereign State
Social & Legal Studies, 2008Co-Authors: Mary BosworthAbstract:As has been widely recognized and commented upon, border controls across Europe and America have been strenuously tightened since September 11th. In fact, of course, the movement of certain non-citizens in and around most western, industrialized countries had been restricted for some time predating the advent of the `war on terror'. In this article I will explore the particular use being made in Britain of criminal justice rhetoric and policy as a means of securing the border and the implications of this reliance on criminal justice discourses in the development of immigration and asylum policies. Building on work by David Garland (1996) and Jonathan Simon (2007), I suggest not only that the increased concern over border control reflects a decline in the power of the State in the face of globalization, but also that the adoption of harsh rhetoric about foreigners risks undermining the agency and democratic freedoms long held dear by British citizens.
Loubna El Amine - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Beyond East and West: Reorienting Political Theory through the Prism of Modernity
Perspectives on Politics, 2016Co-Authors: Loubna El AmineAbstract:While critiquing the dominance of the Western tradition in the discipline of political theory, recent methodological discussions in Comparative Political Theory (CPT) fail to move beyond the East-West dichotomy. More specifically, CPT does not offer the resources to deal with global convergence as embodied in the phenomenon of modernity. I focus on the emergence of the Sovereign State in the modern period and argue that the universal acceptance of the State form creates a globally-shared institutional condition. This condition, in turn, necessitates a shared normative and conceptual apparatus centered on ideals like constitutionalism, rights, and democracy. Two implications follow from my argument. First, we should reconceptualize the history of political thought such that we move from an East/West division to a modern/pre-modern division. Second, alternatives to the dominant (“Western”) model are not real alternatives unless they transcend the Sovereign State itself, charting a new course of multilayered local, regional, and global political arrangements.
