Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; About the Contributors; Introduction: Reclaiming Sovereignty; The traditional concept; International perspectives; Extending the concept; Reference; PART 1: TRADITIONAL PERSPECTIVES: SOVEREIGNTY AND THE STATE; Chapter 1: Is it Time to Detach Sovereignty from the State?; The ambiguity problem; The two faces of the state; James's no-nonsense realism; Form without content?; The problem of the state; Sovereignty and the modern state; Sovereignty and meaning; A poststatist view of sovereignty; References.

Chapter 2: What Has Happened to the Sovereignty of Parliament?The challenge from the executive; The challenge from Europe; The challenge from the courts; The European Convention on Human Rights and a written constitution; The challenge from the referendum; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Sovereignty and the European Union: Eroded, Enhanced, Fragmented; Dimensions of sovereignty; European integration and sovereignty; Community law: eroding sovereignty?; Community law and the member states; Community law and individual rights; Policy in the EU: exercising and extending sovereignty?

The Single European MarketEU regional policy and regionalism; Economic and Monetary Union; The intergovernmental pillars; EU democracy: sovereignty frustrated?; Conclusions: can less equal more?; Notes; References; Chapter 4: The Search for Peace and a Political Settlement in Northern Ireland: Sovereignty, Self-determination and Consent; Introduction; Facing two ways: neither wholly British nor wholly Irish; British intervention and Anglo-Irish relations; From the Downing Street Declaration to the Frameworks Documents; Conclusion; Notes; References.

Chapter 5: Coping with Diversity: Sovereignty in a Divided SocietyThe period of the Union; The problem of apartheid; Negotiating a new constitution; Democracy and the diffusion of power; A normative concept of sovereignty; Wider responsibilities; Notes; References; PART 2: THE INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE: POST-SOVEREIGNTY DEVELOPMENTS?; Chapter 6: Sovereignty in International Law: A Concept of Eternal Return; Introduction; Frontiers, resemblances and corporate entities; The international legal order; Enforcement, war and international law.

The case of nuclear weapons: the failure of the judiciaryPeace-keeping and peace-enforcement in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the UN; References; Chapter 7: Political Economy, Sovereignty and Borders in Global Contexts; Introduction; Hegemony: the political economy of power; The new global era: inequality reframed; The 'neoliberal order': just part of the story?; Conclusion; Notes; References; PART 3: BROADENING THE CONCEPT: SELF, SOCIETY AND NATURE; Chapter 8: Imagining the Boundaries of a Sovereign Self; Introduction; Hobbes: subjugating absence; Winstanley: undamming the self.