Through fourteen original essays, the book seeks to understand the viability of the notion of sovereignty in a globalized world, thus taking into account the inclusion of a language of rights, limitation and legitimacy. It examines sovereignty using a normative approach.

Sovereignty as Value is one of the first books to examine sovereignty using solely a normative approach. Through fourteen original essays, the book seeks to understand its viability in a globalized world, thus taking into account the inclusion of a language of rights, limitation and legitimacy. The authors’ focus is on whether sovereignty as a normative concept might be understood as a criterion of legitimate power and authority; as a foundational concept of public ethics applied to political and legal institutions. How should notions of legitimacy be linked with the notion of sovereignty? In what manner is sovereignty challenged by territoriality and territorial control? How does sovereignty relate to political legitimacy? Are all the forms of sovereign authority legitimate? Does the project of advancing human rights globally conflict with the logic of exclusion inherent in the classic notion of national sovereignty? These are some of the questions that will be assessed in this collective volume.

Introduction

Andre Santos Campos & Susana Cadilha

PART I SOVEREIGNTY AS ‘POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY’

1. Sovereignty, the People, and Popular Sovereignty

Diogo Pires Aurélio

2. Sovereignty, Some Skeptical Thoughts

Christopher W. Morris

3. Is Weak Popular Sovereignty Possible?

Ludvig Beckman

PART II SOVEREIGNTY AS LEGITIMACY

4. On Legitimate Sovereignty and Global Responsibility

Sergio Dellavalle

5. Sovereignty and Legitimate Authority: What Lies Beneath Content-Independence

Andre Santos Campos

6. The Paradoxical Value of Sovereignty in Post-Sovereign Society

Jiří Přibáň

7. On the Conceptual Link between Sovereignty and Legitimacy

Antonia Waltermann

PART III SOVEREIGNTY AS SELF-DETERMINATION

8. Beyond Westphalia: Democratic Conceptions of Sovereignty and Constellations of Plural Territories

Anna Meine

9. Justice, Self-Determination and Territorial Rights Forfeiture

Margaret Moore

10. Controlling Immigration in the Name of Self-Determination

David Miller

11. Sovereignty and the Value of Self-Determination

Eszter Kollar & Ayelet Banai

PART IV SOVEREIGNTY AS COSMOPOLITAN CHALLENGE

12. Citizen Responsibility, Sovereign States, and our Globalized World

Christine Hobden

13. Human Rights Require Yet Contest National Sovereignty: How a Human Rights Corporation Might Help

Benjamin Gregg

14. Critical Cosmopolitanism

Soraya Nour Sckell

Bibliography

Index

List of Contributors