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Examines the evolving concept of sovereignty of nations in relation to international environmental policy, NATO, UN humanitarian intervention, international organized crime, the global information infrastructure, and the case of Chechnya; 7 articles.

Draws upon philosophical & historical writings to argue for placing limits on the notion of sovereignty based on accepted ideas about individual rights. It is argued that if limits are placed on how states may treat their residents, then limits must also be placed on states in regard to which ill-treatment of residents within other states they are allowed to ignore. Although rights imply duties, certain duties place constraints on the activity of sovereign states as members of international society. The issue of default duties is explored, along with difficulties involved in determining which concrete limits should be placed on a particular state; limits on state sovereignty determined by fundamental individual rights; & whether basic rights can be secured for everyone without imposing unfair levels of duties. The "argument from insufficient motive" proposed by David Miller (1995) is explored in relation to genocidal massacres of people by their own state & limiting the right of powerful states to idly stand by while such monstrous evils are being committed. J. Lindroth

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

Understanding that the "Congress of the Peoples" is a process of social and popular character that summons all those dynamics and processes of peoples, sectors and regions that are ready to undertake a legislative common construction for mandatar the future and the present of our country with a Latin-American and world perspective, the Magazine Kavilando assumes in this edition the commitment to facilitate the debate concerning the fight for the life, the territory, the water, the culture and the life deigns as a contribution in the way towards the construction of the autonomies and the popular sovereignty.