Political Survival and Sovereignty in International Relations

ISBN-13: 9781108494502 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 280 str.

Jesse Dillon Savage

Opis

Exploring why political actors willingly give up sovereignty to another state or why they choose to resist, this book is aimed at those interested in international politics and international relations theory, international hierarchy, informal empire and politics and foreign policy of Russia and former Soviet States.

Recenzje

'In recent years, scholars of international relations have rediscovered the fact that all states are sovereign, but some are more sovereign than others. Now, it isn't all that surprising that powerful states seek to dominate weaker ones. But why do some leaders of subordinated states cheerfully accept, and even welcome, their loss of practical authority? Using multiple methods to examine both contemporary and historical cases of 'informal empire', Jesse Dillon Savage brings domestic politics back into the story. Corrupt and kleptocratic regimes - as well as ones that rely on the legal extraction of rents - give up sovereignty to external powers in order to protect their continued self-enrichment. Savage's account is compelling, persuasive, and highly relevant to contemporary global politics. Two thumbs up.' Dan Nexon, Georgetown University

Spis treści

Introduction. Hierarchy and international politics; 1. Political survival and the surrender of sovereignty; 2. Submission, resistance, and war: national politics and Russian hierarchy in Georgia and Ukraine since independence; 3. Subnational politics and sovereignty in post-Soviet Georgia; 4. Mass politics and the surrender of sovereignty; 5. European informal empire in China, the Ottoman Empire and Egypt: hierarchy and informal empire in historical context; 6. Cross national variation in sovereignty and hierarchy; 7. Hierarchy, political order, and great power politics.