POLS 264 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Toleration, World Trade Organization
12 Apr 2018
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Samuel barkin & bruce cronin: the state and the nation. Barkin et. al take a historical perspective on how sovereignty and related concepts of populations and territories change throughout history, and how this changes the idea of legitimate authority. Definitions of sovereignty focus on its legal content, which is unchanging, leading to a fixed view of sovereignty. However, institutionalization of authority is as much a function of legitimacy as it is legal. Therefore an institutional approach must be used to address the legitimization of the nation- state systems. Sovereignty as organizing principle for states has and will continue to survive the challenges of the modern world: Globalization and transnational principles (un, imf, wto) will not generate new state configurations, but rather alter the scope of state authority. Democratic values of states are antithetical to the idea that sovereignty means uncontrolled domestic power. Westphalia was not the start of the modern sovereign state, it came later.
