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The state and the nation: changing norms and the rules of sovereignty in international relations

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  • Barkin, J. Samuel
  • Cronin, Bruce

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The international relations literature regularly embraces sovereignty as the primary constitutive rule of international organization. Theoretical traditions that agree on little else all seem to concur that the defining feature of the modern international system is the division of the world into sovereign states. Despite differences over the role of the state in international affairs, most scholars would accept John Ruggie's definition of sovereignty as “the institutionalization of public authority within mutually exclusive jurisdictional domains.” Regardless of the theoretical approach however, the concept tends to be viewed as a static, fixed concept: a set of ideas that underlies international relations but is not changed along with them. Moreover, the essence of sovereignty is rarely defined; while legitimate authority and territoriality are the key concepts in understanding sovereignty, international relations scholars rarely examine how definitions of populations and territories change through-out history and how this change alters the notion of legitimate authority.

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  • Barkin, J. Samuel & Cronin, Bruce, 1994. "The state and the nation: changing norms and the rules of sovereignty in international relations," International Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 48(1), pages 107-130, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:cup:intorg:v:48:y:1994:i:01:p:107-130_00
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