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Comment: Rethinking on sovereign state.

  • UPSC 2000
  • 20 marks
  • Globalisation

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The classical sovereign state, theorised by Jean Bodin (Six Books of the Commonwealth, 1576), Thomas Hobbes and John Austin and institutionalised at Westphalia (1648), claimed authority that was supreme, territorial, exclusive and indivisible. Rethinking it means asking whether sovereignty is a fixed absolute or a variable bundle of authorities, which can be divided, pooled, conditioned…

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  • Why the classical model was questioned
  • Four reconceptualisations
  • The counter-trend: sovereignty reasserted
  • Critical appraisal
  • Conclusion
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