The state of sovereignty territories, laws, populations (Indiana University Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : sovereignty and the study of states / Douglas Howland and Luise White -- Sovereignty on the isthmus : federalism, U.S. empire, and the struggle for Panama during the California Gold Rush / Aims McGuinness -- The foreign and the sovereign : extraterritoriality in East Asia / Douglas Howland -- Wilsonian sovereignty in the Middle East : the King-Crane Commission report of 1919 / Leonard V. Smith -- Colonial sovereignty in Manchuria and Manchukuo / David Tucker -- Alternatives to empire : France and Africa after World War II / Frederick Cooper -- The ambiguities of sovereignty : the United States and the global human rights cases of the 1940s and 1950s / Mark Philip Bradley -- What does it take to be a state? : sovereignty and sanctions in Rhodesia, 1965-1980 / Luise White -- Legal fictions after empire / John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan -- Sovereignty after socialism at Europe's new borders / Keith Brown -- Environmental security, spatial preservation, and state sovereignty in Central Africa / Kevin C. Dunn -- The paradox of sovereignty in the Balkans / Aida A. Hozic -- The secret lives of the "sovereign" : rethinking sovereignty as international morality / Siba N. Grovogui
The State of Sovereignty examines how it came to pass that the nation-state became the prevailing form of governance in the world today. Spanning the 19th and 20th centuries and addressing colonization and decolonization around the globe, these essays argue that sovereignty is a set of historically contingent practices, and not something that accrues naturally to states