For International Relations scholars, discussions of globalization inevitably turn to questions of sovereignty. How much control does a country have over its borders, people and economy? Where does that authority come from? Sovereign Lives explores these changes through reading of humanitarian intervention, human rights discourses, securitization, refugees, the fragmentation of identities and the practices of development.

This book explores the impact of globalisation on national sovereignty through reading of humanitarian intervention, human rights discourses, securitisation, refugees, the fragmentation of identities, and development practices.