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European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games

Author : Rebecca Adler-Nissen,Ulrik Pram Gad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135127787

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European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games by Rebecca Adler-Nissen,Ulrik Pram Gad Pdf

This book examines how sovereignty works in the context of European integration and postcolonialism. Focusing on a group of micro-polities associated with the European Union, it offers a new understanding of international relations in the context of modern sovereignty. This book offers a systematic and comparative analysis of the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs), the EU and the four affected Member States: UK, France, the Netherlands and Denmark. Contributors explore how states and state-like entities play ‘sovereignty games’ to understand how a group of postcolonial entities may strategically use their ambiguous status in relation to sovereignty. The book examines why former colonies are seeking greater room to manoeuvre on their own, whilst simultaneously developing a close relationship to the supranational EU. Methodologically sophisticated, this interdisciplinary volume combines interviews, participant observation, textual, legal and institutional analysis for a new theoretical approach to understanding the strategic possibilities and subjectivity of non-sovereign entities in international politics. Bringing together research on European integration and postcolonial theory, European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations, EU studies, Postcolonial studies, International Law and Political Theory.

Opting Out of the European Union

Author : Rebecca Adler-Nissen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107043213

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Opting Out of the European Union by Rebecca Adler-Nissen Pdf

This book provides the first in-depth account of how European Union opt-outs and differentiated integration work in practice.

Sovereignty Games

Author : R. Adler-Nissen,T. Gammeltoft-Hansen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230616936

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Sovereignty Games by R. Adler-Nissen,T. Gammeltoft-Hansen Pdf

This book offers an in-depth examination of the strategic use of State sovereignty in contemporary European and international affairs and the consequences of this for authority relations in Europe and beyond. It suggests a new approach to the study of State sovereignty, proposing to understand the use of sovereignty as games where States are becoming more instrumental in their claims to sovereignty and skilled in adapting it to the challenges that they face

National Identity Politics and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games

Author : Ulrik Pram Gad
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : Danmark
ISBN : 9788763545020

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National Identity Politics and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games by Ulrik Pram Gad Pdf

Greenland views itself as being on the way to sovereignty. This image – and the tensions involved in it – structure the triangular relation between the EU, Greenland and Denmark. The central Other of Greenland has for a couple of centuries been Denmark, the colonial overlord. The national identity discourses of Greenland and Denmark both idealize national homogeneity. A central condition for a continuation of Rigsfællesskabet, the 'community of the realm' including Greenland and Denmark, is the idea that Greenland still needs external assistance in its development towards independence - and that this idea can be formulated in a way which does not infantilize Greenland metaphorically. As part of the postcolonial diversification of Greenland's dependency, the bilateral relation between Denmark and Greenland has gradually been opened up to involve 'other others'. Meanwhile, a discourse prognosticates that climate change is opening up the Arctic to minerals extraction and commerce. In these circumstances, the triangular relation with the EU is played out as a series of rhetorical and practical 'sovereignty games', in Nuuk, Copenhagen and Brussels. Particularly, a number of strategies are employed to minimize the apparent role of Denmark for the Greenlandic relations to the EU. The book approaches these changes in national identity discourse and practical foreign policy in five analytical steps: The core concepts organizing Danish and Greenlandic identity are identified in discourse analyses. Political debates are read as political identity negotiations. The practical diplomatic management of clashing identity discourses is uncovered via qualitative interviews with key actors (politicians, diplomats, and civil servants from Greenland, Denmark and the EU). Legal texts are approached as the 'frozen' outcome of rhetorical and practical sovereignty games. Finally, the book develops scenarios for the future and concludes by pointing out how the continuation of the community of the realm may have a better chance if conceived as an 'ever looser union'. One way for Denmark of facilitating this image would be to employ its diplomacy in the service of diversifying Greenland's dependence - following the example set in relation to the EU.

Against International Relations Norms

Author : Charlotte Epstein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317353669

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Against International Relations Norms by Charlotte Epstein Pdf

This volume uses the concept of ‘norms’ to initiate a long overdue conversation between the constructivist and postcolonial scholarships on how to appraise the ordering processes of international politics. Drawing together insights from a broad range of scholars, it evaluates what it means to theorise international politics from a postcolonial perspective, understood not as a unified body of thought or a new ‘-ism’ for IR, but as a ‘situated perspective’ offering ex-centred, post-Eurocentric sites for practices of situated critique. Through in-depth engagements with the norms constructivist scholarship, the contributors expose the theoretical, epistemological and practical erasures that have been implicitly effected by the uncritical adoption of ‘norms’ as the dominant lens for analysing the ideational dynamics of international politics. They show how these are often the very erasures that sustained the workings of colonisation in the first place, whose uneven power relations are thereby further sustained by the study of international politics. The volume makes the case for shifting from a static analysis of ‘norms’ to a dynamic and deeply historical understanding of the drawing of the initial line between the ‘normal’ and the ‘abnormal’ that served to exclude from focus the 'strange' and the unfamiliar that were necessarily brought into play in the encounters between the West and the rest of the world. A timely intervention, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, international relations theory and postcolonial scholarship.

The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories

Author : H. Adlai Murdoch
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781978815742

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The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories by H. Adlai Murdoch Pdf

The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories is an essay collection made up of two sections; in the first, a group of anglophone and francophone scholars examines the roots, effects and implications of the major social upheaval that shook Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Réunion in February and March of 2009. They clearly demonstrate the critical role played by community activism, art and media to combat politico-economic policies that generate (un)employment, labor exploitation, and unattended health risks, all made secondary to the supremacy of profit. In the second section, additional scholars provide in-depth analyses of the ways in which an insistence on capital accumulation and centralization instantiated broad hierarchies of market-driven profit, capital accumulation, and economic exploitation upon a range of populations and territories in the wider non-sovereign and nominally sovereign Caribbean from Haiti to the Dutch Antilles to Puerto Rico, reinforcing the racialized patterns of socioeconomic exclusion and privatization long imposed by France on its former colonial territories.

Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean

Author : Yvon van der Pijl,Francio Guadeloupe
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781978818668

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Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean by Yvon van der Pijl,Francio Guadeloupe Pdf

Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean explores fundamental questions of equality and freedom on the various non-sovereign islands of the Dutch Caribbean. While this collection of essays recognizes the existence of nationalist independence movements, it challenges conventional assumptions about political non/sovereignty, opening a critical space to look at other forms of political articulation, autonomy, liberty, and a good life.

Statehood À la Carte in the Caribbean and the Pacific

Author : Jack Corbett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 9780192864246

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Statehood À la Carte in the Caribbean and the Pacific by Jack Corbett Pdf

This book explains how leaders in the Caribbean and Pacific regions balance the autonomy-viability dilemma of postcolonial statehood - that political self-determination is a hollow achievement unless it is accompanied by economic development - by practising statehood à la carte. Previous research has focused on the pursuit of decolonial self-determination through and above the nation state, via regionalism and internationalism, or by creating non-sovereign alternatives to it. This book looks at how communities have sought the same goals below the state, including via secession and devolution. Downsizing is typically portrayed as the antithesis of progressive, cosmopolitan internationalism and employed as evidence for the claim that the age of anticolonial self-determination has ended. In this book, Jack Corbett shows how these movements are animated by similar ideas and motivations that are rendered viable by the simultaneous pursuit of regional integration and forms of non-sovereignty. He argues that the à la carte pursuit of political and economic independence through, above, and below the state, and via non-sovereign alternatives to it, is a pragmatic response to the contradictions inherent to coloniality.

Greenland and the International Politics of a Changing Arctic

Author : Kristian Søby Kristensen,Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351668828

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Greenland and the International Politics of a Changing Arctic by Kristian Søby Kristensen,Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen Pdf

Greenland and the International Politics of a Changing Arctic examines the international politics of semi-independent Greenland in a changing and increasingly globalised Arctic. Without sovereign statehood, but with increased geopolitical importance, independent foreign policy ambitions, and a solidified self-image as a trailblazer for Arctic indigenous peoples’ rights, Greenland is making its mark on the Arctic and is in turn affected – and empowered – by Arctic developments. The chapters in this collection analyse how a distinct Greenlandic foreign policy identity shapes political ends and means, how relations to its parent state of Denmark is both a burden and a resource, and how Greenlandic actors use and influence regional institutional settings as well as foreign states and commercial actors to produce an increasingly independent – if not sovereign – entity with aims and ambitions for regional change in the Arctic. This is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of Greenland’s international relations and how they are connected to wider Arctic politics. It will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in Arctic governance and security, international relations, sovereignty, geopolitics, paradiplomacy, indigenous affairs and anyone concerned with the political future of the Arctic.

Constitutional Pluralism in the EU

Author : Klemen Jaklic
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191008955

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Constitutional Pluralism in the EU by Klemen Jaklic Pdf

Where does the law and political power of any given territory come from? Until recently it was believed that it came from a single and hierarchical source of constitutional authority, a sovereign people and their constitution. However, how can this model account for the new Europe? Where state constitutions and the European Constitution, which are ultimately equally self-standing sources of constitutional authority, overlap heterarchically over a shared piece of territory. Constitutional pluralism is a new branch within constitutional thought that argues sovereignty is no longer the accurate and normatively superior constitutional foundation. It instead replaces this thought with its own foundation. It emerged on the basis of contributions by the leading EU constitutionalists and has now become the most dominant branch of European constitutional thought. Its claims have also overstepped the European context, suggesting that it offers historic advantages for further development of the idea of constitutionalism and world order as such. This book offers the first overarching examination of constitutional pluralism.Comprehensively mapping out the leading contributions to date and solving the complicated labyrinth they currently form, Klemen Jaklic offers a complete assessment against existing and new criticisms while elaborating his own original vision. Constitutional pluralism thus refined has the potential to rightfully be considered the superior new approach within constitutional thought.

The Commonwealth and the European Union in the 21st Century

Author : Melanie Torrent,Virginie Roiron Roiron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317235910

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The Commonwealth and the European Union in the 21st Century by Melanie Torrent,Virginie Roiron Roiron Pdf

Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union? Is the Commonwealth of Nations still relevant for its very diverse member states, ranging from small island states to Australia and India? In contemporary British politics, both organisations have come under fierce criticism, sometimes leading to hasty assessments of historical experiences and current policies. Given the fact that the United Kingdom, Cyprys and Malta are members of both organisations, and that ‘Brexit’ would have far-ranging consequences much beyond British shores, relations between the EU and the Commonwealth have featured surprisingly rarely in major debates of international policy. This edited volume suggests possible – and even desirable – connections between the two organisations by investing current contacts, fault lines, external critique and outside perspectives. Focusing on soft power, development, humanitarianism and modes of intervention, the authors investigate disputes over international norms and trade patterns. Through global approaches and specific case studies drawn from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, they demonstrate where opportunities for international cooperation were missed and how useful partnerships might be found. The EU and the Commonwealth are undoubtedly very different organisations but distinctions can provide grounds for meaningful, relevant cooperation. More strategic dialogue between the Commonwealth and the EU, this volume agues, would be a valuable asset for the two international organisations, their member states and their citizens. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs.

Research Handbook on Minority Politics in the European Union

Author : Tove H. Malloy,Balázs Vizi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800375932

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Research Handbook on Minority Politics in the European Union by Tove H. Malloy,Balázs Vizi Pdf

This timely Research Handbook provides a multidisciplinary overview of research on ethno-cultural minority issues at the supranational level of the EU. It delivers a state-of-the-art review of the EU’s approaches to development and institutional implementation of minority policies from the Treaty of Rome until today.

Greenland in Arctic Security

Author : Marc Jacobsen,Ulrik Pram Gad,Ole Wæver
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472904396

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Greenland in Arctic Security by Marc Jacobsen,Ulrik Pram Gad,Ole Wæver Pdf

Greenland has increasingly captivated imaginations around the globe. Yet, while it is central to the Arctic region, its role has been poorly understood. Greenland in Arctic Security delivers a comprehensive overview of how security dynamics unfold in and in relation to Greenland. Each individual chapter analyzes specific discourses and dynamics pertaining to hard or soft security questions. These span from great power interests in geostrategic infrastructure to domestic debates centered on promoting and protecting Greenland identity when engaging with the outside world. In addition, the book offers perspectives on other security questions that have been catalyzed by the effects of climate change. By combining these different analyses, Greenland in Arctic Security provides new, theoretically informed discussions on how security politics can manifest across different scales and territorial borders. At times, these politics can have consequences beyond their original intent. With Greenland geopolitics and securitization theory of current interest to political and academic debates, this book offers timely insights for readers.

Spacing (in) Diaspora

Author : Emma Patchett
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783110544251

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Spacing (in) Diaspora by Emma Patchett Pdf

This work attempts to counteract the essentialism of originary thinking in the contemporary era by providing a new reading of a relatively understudied corpus of literature from a ambivalently stereotyped diasporic group, in order to rethink and problematise the concept of diaspora as a spatial concept. As work situated in the Law-in-Literature movement, beyond the disciplinary boundaries of scholarship, this book aims to construct a ‘literary jurisprudence’ of diaspora space, deconstructing space in order to question what it means to be ‘settled’ in literary refractions of the lawscape by drawing on refractions of case law in a corpus of texts by Romani authors. These texts are used as hermeutic framings to draw unique spatio-temporal landscapes through which the reader can explore the refractive, reflective, interpretative conditions of legality as a crucible in which to theorise law.The radical intent of this work, therefore, is to deconstruct jurisprudential spatial order in order to theorize diaspora space, in the context of the Roma Diaspora. This work will offer readers new possibilities to re-imagine diaspora through law and literature and provides an innovative critical interdisciplinary analysis of the shaping of space.

Sovereignty and European Integration

Author : M. Wind
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403901040

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Sovereignty and European Integration by M. Wind Pdf

From the point of departure of international relations theory it is not an easy task to come to grips with the European integration process. We are faced with a situation where some of the world's oldest and traditionally most sovereignty-loving nations have surrendered essential parts of their power to a supranational institution. In order to make sense of this the book employs a constructivist framework. Empirically it focuses on the way in which the Community has transformed from a traditional international regime, based on classical international law, to a semi-federal polity where Community law and regulations trump national law and constitutions.