? This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the concept of sovereignty. ? This book outlines the origins, context and evolution of the concept of sovereignty as an essential attribute of the modern territorial State since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. ? The book identifies two competing traditions of the concept of sovereignty; the tradition inaugurated by Jean Bodin in 1576 in his work ?The Six Books of the Commonwealth? and another that started with Johannes Althusius in 1603, considered the ?father? of federal theory, in his less known work ?Politica?. ? In order to...

? This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the concept of sovereignty. ? This book outlines the origins, context and evolution of the concept of sovereignty as an essential attribute of the modern territorial State since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. ? The book identifies two competing traditions of the concept of sovereignty; the tradition inaugurated by Jean Bodin in 1576 in his work ?The Six Books of the Commonwealth? and another that started with Johannes Althusius in 1603, considered the ?father? of federal theory, in his less known work ?Politica?. ? In order to...