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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Witkin, Nathan

Titel

A state of the people: the shift of sovereignty from territory to citizens

Ist Teil von

• Transnational law & contemporary problems, 2017-01, Vol.27 (1), p.33-76

Ort / Verlag

Iowa City: University of Iowa, Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Nexis Uni

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Despite its popular conception, sovereignty is not an inherently territorial system. Because exclusive zones of authority may be created only through recognition by other political powers, sovereignty is the product of mutual agreements among states. Therefore, international treaties do not merely recognize the sovereignty of their signatories--they create and define the concept of sovereignty. Recognizing this important distinction, this Article demonstrates how the network of treaties, which states are building to exercise power over increasingly global people and goods, is shifting the locus of sovereignty from fixed territories to mobile citizens.