Sovereignty in transition / edited by Neil Walker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. A. Disciplinary Perspectives -- 1. Late Sovereignty in the European Union / Neil Walker -- 2. Sovereignty: Unpopular and Popular / Bert Van Roermund -- 3. Ten Tenets of Sovereignty / Martin Loughlin -- 4. Sovereignty and Representation in the European Union / Hans Lindahl -- 5. Sovereignty and Constitutionalism in International Law / Bardo Fassbender -- 6. From State Sovereignty to the 'Sovereignty of Citizens' in the International Relations Law of the EU? / Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann -- 7. Sovereignty, Post-Sovereignty and Pre-Sovereignty: Three Models of the State, Democracy and Rights within the EU / Richard Bellamy -- 8. Sovereignty and Plurinational Democracy: Problems in Political Science / Michael Keating -- 9. Discussing Sovereignty and Transnational Politics / Jef Huysmans -- 10. 'Que les Latins appellent maiestatem': An Exploration into the Theological Background of the Concept of Sovereignty / Govert Buijs -- Pt. B. Constitutional Perspectives I: The View from the States -- 11. Sovereignty in France: Getting Rid of the Mal de Bodin / Jacques Ziller -- 12. Sovereignty Uber Alles: (Re)Configuring the German Legal Order / Miriam Aziz -- 13. The Legacy of Sovereignty in the Italian Constitutional Debate / Marta Cartabia -- 14. United Kingdom - Divided on Sovereignty? / Kenneth Armstrong -- 15. Do Not Mention the Word: Sovereignty in Two Europhile Countries: Belgium and the Netherlands / Bruno de Witte -- 16. State Sovereignty and European Integration: Public International Law, EU Law and Constitutional Law in the Polish Context / Cezary Mik -- 17. Postmodern Versus Retrospective Sovereignty: Two Different Discourses in the EU and the Candidate Countries? / Anneli Albi -- 18. The Debate About Sovereignty in the United States: A Historical and Comparative Perspective / Jeffrey Goldsworthy -- Pt. C. Constitutional Perspectives II: The View from Europe -- 19. Sovereignty and the Supremacy Doctrine of the European Court of Justice / Grainne de Burca -- 20. Sovereignty at the Boundaries of the Polity / Jo Shaw -- 21. Contrapunctual Law: Europe's Constitutional Pluralism in Action / Miguel Poiares Maduro.

"Sovereignty in Transition brings together a group of leading scholars from law and cognate disciplines to assess contemporary developments in the framework of ideas and the variety of institutional forms associated with the concept of sovereignty. Sovereignty has been described as the main organising concept of the international society of states - one which is traditionally central to the discipline and practice of both constitutional law and of international law. The volume asks to what extent, and with what implications, this centrality is challenged by contemporary developments that shift authority away from the state to new sub-state, supra-state and non-state forms. A particular focus of attention is the European Union, and the relationship between the sovereignty traditions of various member states on the one hand and the new claims to authority made on behalf of the European Union itself on the other are examined. The collection also includes contributions from international law, legal philosophy, legal history, political theory, political science, international relations and the history of ideas, each of which seeks to examine the state of the sovereignty debate in these disciplines in ways that throw light on the local constitutional debate in the European Union."--BOOK JACKET.

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