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Constructing sovereignty between politics and law
In: The new international relations
The third debate revisited: the unfulfilled promise of social constructivism
In: Working paper 14
Rethinking the Principle of (Sovereign) Equality as a Standard of Civilisation
In: Millennium: journal of international studies, Volume 42, Issue 3, p. 767-789
ISSN: 1477-9021
The standard of civilisation is most often identified as the infamous legal doctrine that legitimised imperialist rule and the exclusion of non-European non-Christian states from the international society. In disciplinary narratives of both International Relations and International Law this colonial project is usually presented as a mere interlude on the way to a mature and inclusive international society based sovereign equality as its organising principle. In line with more critical historiography, which shows how colonialism is the condition of possibility for both sovereignty and international law, this article investigates how a standard of civilisation is inherent in political legal practices of international ordering. Moreover, while usually presented as a practice of exclusion, this article will analyse the more intricate dynamic of inclusion and exclusion as a basis for international order by addressing the legal politics of subjecthood (as objects and subjects of the imagined global regime). More specifically, it will address how law operates as a technology through the interplay between a standard of civilisation, the principle of equality and legal subjectivity. The article will look into legal practices of different historical periods (in the age of discovery, during the colonial expansion, and in modern international society) to analyse the workings and transformations of these legal technologies. Together this will show how an (implicit) standard of civilisation is entrenched in the operation of law as a technology of international order. This does not stop with the universalisation of sovereign equality as the organising principle of an inclusive or 'global' international society. This article will argue that this reveals the productive power of law which functions not just as a juridical rule to regulate relations between independent and equal sovereign subjects, but operates as the norm to produce appropriate sovereigns as members of the international society.
Rethinking the Principle of (Sovereign) Equality as a Standard of Civilisation
In: Millennium: journal of international studies, Volume 42, Issue 3, p. 767-789
ISSN: 0305-8298
Over de politiek-juridische constructie van soevereiniteit
In: Res publica: politiek-wetenschappelijk tijdschrift van de Lage Landen ; driemaandelijs tijdschrift, Volume 55, Issue 1, p. 136-139
ISSN: 0486-4700
Over de politiek-juridische constructie van soevereiniteit
In: Res publica: politiek-wetenschappelijk tijdschrift van de Lage Landen ; driemaandelijks tijdschrift, Volume 55, Issue 1, p. 136-139
ISSN: 0486-4700
Patterns of Global Governmentality and Sovereignty
In: The Diffusion of Power in Global Governance, p. 229-255
Playing the game of sovereign states: Charles Manning's constructivism avant-la-lettre
In: European journal of international relations, Volume 16, Issue 2, p. 247-268
ISSN: 1354-0661
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Playing the game of sovereign states: Charles Manning's constructivism avant-la-lettre
In: European journal of international relations, Volume 16, Issue 2, p. 247-268
ISSN: 1460-3713
This article analyses C.A.W. Manning's The Nature of International Society ( NIS) by exploring the constructivist insights avant-la-lettre displayed in this not so prominent opus on international society. The article's objective is twofold. First, to re-establish Manning's argument, which has been distorted by its successors. That is to say, whereas often identified as a source of inspiration by subsequent generations of English School academics, the British mainstream at the same time appears to have missed out on Manning's more metatheoretical, socio-linguistic insights. By exploring his message about the link between knowledge, language, meaning and reality, this article secondly addresses the added value of Manning's work in terms of his analysis of the metaphor of sovereignty games. It is argued that, particularly in the analysis of the constitutive role of language, NIS provides useful insights for the reconvention project of the English School.
Sovereignty. Evolution of an idea
In: Acta politica: AP ; international journal of political Science, Volume 44, Issue 4, p. 480-483
ISSN: 1741-1416
Sovereignty. Evolution of an idea
In: Acta politica: AP ; international journal of political science ; official journal of the Dutch Political Science Association (Nederlandse Kring voor Wetenschap der Politiek), Volume 44, Issue 4, p. 480-483
ISSN: 0001-6810
A Foucauldian Approach to International Law. Descriptive Thoughts for Normative Issues
In: European journal of international law, Volume 19, Issue 4, p. 870-875
ISSN: 0938-5428
The future of sovereignty in multilevel governance Europe: a constructivist reading
In: Journal of common market studies: JCMS, Volume 42, Issue 1, p. 23-46
ISSN: 0021-9886
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Constructivism in International Relations: The Politics of Reality
In: Cooperation and conflict: journal of the Nordic International Studies Association, Volume 39, Issue 1, p. 93-94
ISSN: 0010-8367