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Krasner stakes out a rigorous and important position. This book is one that must be read by those who have the slightest interest in the history of international relations. -- "Virginia Quarterly Review
Sovereignty is a powerful and important book, destined to become a standard realist position in the current contexts of globalization and security theory. -- "Choice
Virginia Quarterly Review
SOME ANALYSTS have argued that sovereignty is being eroded by one aspect of the contemporary international system, globalization, and others that it is being sustained, even in states whose governments have only the most limited resources, by another aspect of the system, the mutual recognition and shared expectations generated by international society. Read the first page
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The author says that the term sovereignty is used mainly in four ways. International legal sovereignty refers to the practices that have to do with mutual recognition, while Westphalian sovereignty has to do with "political organization based on the exclusion of external actors from authority structures within a given territory". Domestic sovereignty refers to the "formal organization of political authority within the state" and the ability of rulers to exercise control within it. Lastly, Interdependence sovereignty takes into account the way in which public authorities regulate the flow of people, information, capital and ideas across the borders of the state.
The different kinds of sovereignty don't always go together, and can change at different paces. In this book Krasner concentrates on studying International legal sovereignty and Westphalian sovereignty, seeking to show us how they apply in the international system. According to him, those two kinds of sovereignty are good examples of organized hypocrisy, because they are recognized but not always respected. For instance, Westphalian sovereignty (based on the exclusion of external actors) has been violated repeatedly, and several motives (for example minority rights, fiscal responsibility and international security) have been used as pretexts to do so.
Krasner says that "In the international system, no institutional arrangement, including international legal and Westphalian sovereignty, can be taken for granted. A logic of consequences can always prevail over a logic of appropriateness". He gives quite a number of valid reasons why this happens, and a lot of examples taken from history that help the reader to understand why "organized hypocrisy" pervades in the international system in matters that have to do with sovereignty.
"Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy" is certainly not perfect (it tends to be a little repetitive). Despite that, this is the kind of book you won't regret buying. Why?. I will try to explain that with an example. If you like to read the newspapers, you probably have already noticed that sometimes, in the international realm, actions have nothing to do with the principles that are supposedly recognized and respected by all the states. Stephen D. Krasner tries to explain, at least in part, why that happens...I think he succeeds marvelously, and because of that I strongly recommend this book to you.
Belen Alcat
The author says that the term sovereignty is used mainly in four ways. International legal sovereignty refers to the practices that have to do with mutual recognition, while Westphalian sovereignty has to do with *political organization based on the exclusion of external actors from authority structures within a given territory*. Domestic sovereignty refers to the *formal organization of political authority within the state* and the ability of rulers to exercise control within it. Lastly, Interdependence sovereignty takes into account the way in which public authorities regulate the flow of people, information, capital and ideas across the borders of the state.
The different kinds of sovereignty don?t always go together, and can change at different paces. In this book Krasner concentrates on studying International legal sovereignty and Westphalian sovereignty, seeking to show us how they apply in the international system. According to him, those two kinds of sovereignty are good examples of organized hypocrisy, because they are recognized but not always respected. For instance, Westphalian sovereignty (based on the exclusion of external actors) has been violated repeatedly, and several motives (for example minority rights, fiscal responsibility and international security) have been used as pretexts to do so.
Krasner says that *In the international system, no institutional arrangement, including international legal and Westphalian sovereignty, can be taken for granted. A logic of consequences can always prevail over a logic of appropriateness*. He gives quite a number of valid reasons why this happens, and a lot of examples taken from history that help the reader to understand why *organized hypocrisy* pervades in the international system in matters that have to do with sovereignty.
*Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy* is certainly not perfect (it tends to be a little repetitive). Despite that, this is the kind of book you won?t regret buying. Why?. I will try to explain that with an example. If you like to read the newspapers, you probably have already noticed that sometimes, in the international realm, actions have nothing to do with the principles that are supposedly recognized and respected by all the states. Stephen D. Krasner tries to explain, at least in part, why that happens...I think he succeeds marvelously, and because of that I strongly recommend this book to you.
Belen Alcat
This book will tell you the tale of Westphalia still predominate us, either thought or action, especially the hypothetic foreign policy!
I think this book is the best one in sovereignty-related books, for its enough fully detailed collecting and its conclusion, i.e. the fiction of sovereignty during past several centuries.
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