Sovereignty: The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Men

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if this colony were acquired by occupying such lands as were uncultivated and unoccupied by the natives, and within the limits of the sovereignty asserted under the commission, the aborigines would have remained unconquered and free, but dependent tribes, dependent on the colonists as their superiors for protection; their rights as a distinct people cannot, from their peculiar situation, be considered to have been tacitly surrendered. But the frequent conflicts that have occurred between the colonists and the Aborigines within the limits of the colony of New South Wales, make it, I think, sufficiently manifest that the Aboriginal tribes are neither a conquered people, nor have tacitly acquiesced in the supremacy of the settlers." The contradictions multiply. Tombs is deeply committed to the two central and intertwined propositions that have propelled Britain towards its deeply uncertain fate as a semi-detached adjunct to that continent. The first is that sovereignty is an absolute concept; it “can be given up, but not shared”. The second is that “there was only one meaningful Brexit, which was to leave the Single Market, the Customs Union and the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice”. Sovereignty is recognised reciprocally, meaning that sovereign entities (usually nations) recognise each other’s sovereignty. Sovereignty vs self-determination

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There are some men out there who are searching for something to validate the inherent feelings they are having in regards to what it takes to be a man and gives the permission that some men may be looking for. The principles discussed in this book aren't new concepts when it comes to what it takes to be a man. However, Ryan Michler provides a concentrated resource and clear path to manhood through looking at yourself, your beliefs and how you can and should reclaim your God-given sovereignty. Sovereignty should be situated at the boundary between politics and law, rather than being clearly embedded in one or the other. This interpretation of the relationship between political and legal sovereignty solves a long-standing paradox in international law or at least makes the most of it. Chapter 1: Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Governance and the Link to Indigenous Policy, Maggie Walter and Stephanie Russo Carroll The question of the degree of power and amount of competence necessary for an entity to become or remain sovereign has given rise to a long controversy in the history of the concept. Select 4 - Sovereignty and human rights in “post-conflict” constitution-making: toward a jus post bellum for “interim occupations”It can be difficult to distinguish the two terms. 'Self-determination' is a more loose word for 'sovereignty'. Sometimes, it is used as an alternative, while other times it is used to describe a form of ‘limited sovereignty’ under the sovereign power of someone else. In international law, sovereignty is a more precise term than self-determination. Jean Cohen’s book is a rare combination: a legal treatise that is also a political theory. Her analysis of the UN charter and of UN resolutions is cogent and illuminating; her advocacy of constitutional pluralism as the critical feature of global governance is exhilarating.’ Even though there exists a historical and conceptual link between these two forms of sovereignty, as discussed above, it is important to distinguish between them in practice. I'm a follower of Ryan's on social media. I really appreciate the work he does and what he brings to the table. This book did initiate change in me, but it took me a considerable amount of time to read because, to be frank, it's dull at times.

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Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Divided Rule: Sovereignty and Empire in French Tunisia, 1881-1938 (California: University of California Press, 2013) Maggie Walter (Palawa) (PhD, FASSA) is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Publishing extensively in the field of Indigenous Data, including Indigenous Statistics (with C. Andersen 2013 Routledge), Maggie is a founding member of the Maiam nayri Wingara Indigenous Data Sovereignty Collective and the Global Indigenous Data Alliance.Stephen Krasner played a key role in transforming state sovereignty from a neorealist presumption into an object of sustained inquiry. Thus his new book is particularly noteworthy. . . . Keeping different kinds of sovereignty straight is crucial to the study of international relations, whether at the hands of neorealists or constructivists, nonliberal institutionalists, or postmodernists."—Fred H. Lawson, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science A research essay based on a wide reading of primary and secondary sources. The convenor will provide students with a list of potential titles, or students can devise their own titles so long as they are approved in writing with the convenor. Another classical and related distinction pertains to the divisibility of sovereignty. The issue whether sovereignty can be divided is as controversial as that of whether it can be limited. In fact, both issues are very closely connected and often conflated. Older and recent literature refer to absolute sovereignty to mean unlimited sovereignty as much as undivided sovereignty. For the sake of clarity, I will refer to absolute sovereignty by contrast to limited sovereignty only, although divided sovereignty can obviously no longer be deemed absolute either. If States were to remain ultimate authorities on the inside, they needed to be independent on the outside. Alongside conflicts of sovereignty among independent States, the necessity of developing international legal rules gradually emerged. In the absence of a global supreme power, sovereign States could only be held accountable to each other according to freely endorsed mutual promises. And the only way of ensuring the respect of these obligations was to impose international legal rules for mutual respect of sovereignty and of mutual promises among sovereign States. Without such legal rules, sovereignty would be reduced to mere factual power.

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D. Grimm and B. Cooper, Sovereignty: The Origin and Future of a Political and Legal Concept (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015) Political leaders have usually but not always honored international legal sovereignty, the principle that international recognition should be accorded only to juridically independent sovereign states, while treating Westphalian sovereignty, the principle that states have the right to exclude external authority from their own territory, in a much more provisional way. In some instances violations of the principles of sovereignty have been coercive, as in the imposition of minority rights on newly created states after the First World War or the successor states of Yugoslavia after 1990; at other times cooperative, as in the European Human Rights regime or conditionality agreements with the International Monetary Fund. Reverend Dr Djiniyini Goṉḏarra OAM, Senior Elder Dhurili Clan Nation and Chairman of Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation, explains how law relates to sovereignty (Madayin = Yolngu law system): Vanessa Ogle, 'Archipelago Capitalism: Tax Havens, Offshore Money, and the State, 1950s-1970s,' American Historical Review 122 (2017): 1431-1458.The fact that he went through his own "valley of the shadow of death", only to pull out of it and renew his vigor to re-conquer his own world, spoke DEEPLY to me, going through my own struggle to overcome situational depression, resisting the urge to cynically dismiss hope as naive.

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The acceptance of human rights and minority rights, the increasing role of international financial institutions, and globalization have led many observers to question the continued viability of the sovereign state. Here a leading expert challenges this conclusion. Stephen Krasner contends that states have never been as sovereign as some have supposed. Throughout history, rulers have been motivated by a desire to stay in power, not by some abstract adherence to international principles. Organized hypocrisy—the presence of longstanding norms that are frequently violated—has been an enduring attribute of international relations.Reading these developments as the end of or as a reduction of sovereignty amounts to a misconception, however. They are in line with modern sovereignty as it was conceived of in the domestic context since the late 18 th century and are merely signs of its adaptation to new circumstances. Just as modern domestic sovereignty became an impersonal function of the State for the people, modern international sovereignty finally became a function distinct from the legal persona of the State. Moreover, just as modern domestic sovereignty emerged through a limitation of classic and early modern sovereignty, modern international sovereignty is a limited version of its classic correspondent. Further, just as modern domestic sovereignty is law-based, modern international sovereignty finds its sources in international law and not only the other way around. Finally, just as modern domestic sovereignty has an internal and an external dimension, modern international sovereignty is no longer only external, but it also has a growing internal dimension as international law regulates elements of internal State organization and competence. In short, modern international sovereignty is as important for the self-determination of democratic States in international law as ever, but to serve the same purpose its modalities have changed. Stephanie Russo Carroll (Ahtna-Native Village of Kluti-Kaah, Sicilian-descent) (DrPH, MPH) is Assistant Professor of Public Health and Associate Director for the Native Nations Institute at the University of Arizona, USA. A researcher active at the nexus of Indigenous governance, the environment, community wellness and data,　Stephanie　co-founded the US　Indigenous　Data　Sovereignty　Network and is a founding member and chair of the Global Indigenous Data Alliance. Political and legal sovereignty have always been closely linked in the history of the concept; most theories either derive legal sovereignty from political sovereignty or vice-versa, while others see both dimensions as irreducibly connected. The paradox of pouvoir constituant and pouvoir constitué or of rule sovereignty and ruler sovereignty is inextricably tied to the modern claim to sovereignty. Different accounts have been given of the priority between political and legal sovereignty across the centuries and have contributed to perpetuating the centrality of the concept of sovereignty. Some authors have even argued that this paradox and mutual claim are testimony of the conceptual incoherence of sovereignty. 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