Globalization and Sovereignty
Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy, and Constitutionalism

This book examines the way in which globalisation has affected our thinking about sovereignty, human rights, law and legitimacy.

Jean L. Cohen (Author)

9780521765855, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 2 August 2012

456 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.78 kg

'… this book is a very impressive achievement and well worth reading by anyone interested in the debates on global governance, international law and constitutionalism, and reform of the UN system. The author does a superb job in weaving together some of the diffuse and often somewhat inaccessible bodies of literature that together present the complex picture of scholarly understandings of the future of global governance.' Gráinne de Búrca, Global Law Books

Sovereignty and the sovereign state are often seen as anachronisms; Globalization and Sovereignty challenges this view. Jean L. Cohen analyzes the new sovereignty regime emergent since the 1990s evidenced by the discourses and practice of human rights, humanitarian intervention, transformative occupation, and the UN targeted sanctions regime that blacklists alleged terrorists. Presenting a systematic theory of sovereignty and its transformation in international law and politics, Cohen argues for the continued importance of sovereign equality. She offers a theory of a dualistic world order comprised of an international society of states, and a global political community in which human rights and global governance institutions affect the law, policies, and political culture of sovereign states. She advocates the constitutionalization of these institutions, within the framework of constitutional pluralism. This book will appeal to students of international political theory and law, political scientists, sociologists, legal historians, and theorists of constitutionalism.

Introduction
1. Sovereignty in the context of globalization: a constitutional pluralist approach
2. Constitutionalism and political form: rethinking federation
3. International human rights, sovereignty and global governance: toward a new political conception
4. Sovereignty and human rights in 'post conflict' constitution-making: toward a jus post-bellum for 'interim occupations'
5. Security council activism in the 'war on terror': legality and legitimacy reconsidered
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: International law [LB], United Nations & UN agencies [JPSN1], International institutions [JPSN], International relations [JPS], Political science & theory [JPA], Social & political philosophy [HPS]