Sovereignty under challenge :: how governments respond /: John D. Montgomery, Nathan Glazer, editors.

Glazer, Nathan,; Montgomery, John D.

doi:10.4324/9781315130095

Sovereignty under challenge : how governments respond / John D. Montgomery, Nathan Glazer, editors.

Glazer, Nathan, editor.; Montgomery, John D. (John Dickey), 1920-2008, editor.

2017

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Sovereignty under challenge : how governments respond / John D. Montgomery, Nathan Glazer, editors.

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Glazer, Nathan, editor.
Montgomery, John D. (John Dickey), 1920-2008, editor.

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London : Routledge, 2017.

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1 online resource (ix, 402 pages)

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part Introduction
chapter 1 Sovereignty in Transition
part Part 1: The Citizen and the State
chapter 2 Dual Citizenship as a Challenge to Sovereignty
chapter 3 National Human Rights Commissions in Asia
chapter 4 Challenging the State: Falungong and Regulatory Dilemmas in China
part Part 2: The Government as Decision-Maker
chapter 5 From Heat to Light?: Japan's Changing Response to Global Warming
chapter 6 Orchestrating Collaboration Among Contending States: The World Health Organization and Infectious Disease Control in Southeast Asia / Jeremy Shiffman
part Part 3: Sovereignty and Culture
chapter 7 Challenging Sovereignty: India, TRIPS, and the WTO
chapter 8 Domesticating Foreign Ideas in the Adoption of New Institutions: Evidence from Fiji and Indonesia
chapter 9 Judicial Process and Dilemmas of Legitimacy and Sovereignty: The Malaysian Case in Comparative Perspective / Comparative Perspective Michael G. Peletz
part Part 4: Sovereignty and the Economy
chapter 10 Desecuritizing Sovereignty: Economic Interest and Responses to Political Challenges of Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East
chapter 11 Doing Well by Doing Good? Transnational Regulatory Campaigns, Social Activism, and Impacts on State Sovereignty / Ronnie Lipschutz
chapter 12 Indigenous Land Rights: Who Controls the Philippine Public Domain? / Philippine Public Domain? Rosemary Morales-Fernholz
chapter 13 Sovereignty On Line: The Challenges of Transnational Corporations and Information Technology in Asia / Dennis A. Rondinelli
part Conclusion
chapter 14 State Sovereignty: Alive and Well.

Summary

"Sovereignty-the authority of a state to wield ultimate power over its territory, its citizens, its institutions-is everywhere undergoing change as states respond in various ways to the challenges posed, from above and below. "Above" the state is the widening net of international institutions and treaties dealing with human rights, trade, investment, and monetary affairs; and "below" it are rising claims within states from long-resident groups discontented with the political order and from new migrants testing its authority. Sovereignty under Challenge deals with a range of such challenges and responses, analyzed in authoritative studies by leading scholars.The introductory chapter sets forth the theme that sovereignty is asserted clearly, but often unpredictably, when governments respond to challenge. It suggests ways of classifying these responses as variables that help explain the changing nature of sovereignty. Part 1, "The Citizen and the State," treats the rising tide of dual citizenship and the concerns this arouses in the United States; the work of national human rights commissions in Asia; and the challenge posed to the state by the Falungong movement in China. The two chapters in Part 2, "The Government as Decision-Maker," examine Japan's response to global warming and the problems of the World Health Organization in orchestrating collaboration among Southeast Asian states in implementing infectious disease control. Part 3, "Sovereignty and Culture," looks at conflicts engendered by outside change on indigenous economic, cultural, and legal institutions in India, Fiji, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The chapters in Part 4, "Sovereignty and the Economy," analyze the economic and cultural instability induced by Chinese migration to Russia's far east; the impact on state sovereignty brought about by transnational regulatory campaigns and social activism; the question of indigenous land rights in the Philippines; and the impact of transnational cor"--Provided by publisher.

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First published 2002 by Transaction Publishers.

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