Sovereignty in Transition

Half Title Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 3
Title verso......Page 4
Preface......Page 5
Contents......Page 11
About the Contributors......Page 13
Part A: Disciplinary Perspectives......Page 15
1. SOVEREIGNTY AND CONSTITUTIONAL PLURALISM......Page 17
2. THE CONCEPT OF SOVEREIGNTY......Page 20
3. TWO PHASES OF SOVEREIGNTY......Page 23
4. RECONCEPTUALISING SOVEREIGNTY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION......Page 24
5. LATE SOVEREIGNTY......Page 33
6. THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF LATE SOVEREIGNTY......Page 39
7. CONCLUSION: SOME NORMATIVE IMPLICATIONS......Page 45
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 47
2. TWO PROBLEMS OF SOVEREIGNTY......Page 48
3. AN ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNT......Page 55
4. SOME CONCLUSIONS AND PROSPECTS......Page 65
3.  Ten Tenets of Sovereignty......Page 69
1. SOVEREIGNTY IS A FACET OF THE MODERN STATE......Page 71
2. POLITICAL RELATIONSHIPS DO NOT DERIVE FROM PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS......Page 73
3. PUBLIC POWER MUST BE DIFFERENTIATED FROM PRIVATE POWER......Page 75
4. PUBLIC POWER IS NOT PERSONAL BUT OFFICIAL......Page 77
5. PUBLIC POWER IS A PRODUCT OF A POLITICAL RELATIONSHIP......Page 79
6. SOVEREIGNTY IS AN EXPRESSION OF PUBLIC POWER......Page 81
7. SOVEREIGNTY IS RELATIONAL......Page 82
8. RIGHTS ARE NOT ANTAGONISTIC TO SOVEREIGNTY BUT ARE THE PRODUCT OF ITS EXPRESSION......Page 85
9. THE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC LAW IS AN EXPRESSION OF SOVEREIGNTY......Page 87
10. PUBLIC LAW IS NOT SOLELY A MATTER OF POSITIVE LAW......Page 88
CONCLUSION: SOVEREIGNTY IN TRANSITION?......Page 94
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 101
2. THE STANDARD PICTURE ABOUT SOVEREIGNTY......Page 104
3. THE LOGIC OF POLITICAL REPRESENTATION......Page 109
4. SOVEREIGNTY AND THE REPRESENTATION OF UNITY......Page 115
5. XENONOMOUS AUTONOMY......Page 126
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 129
2. SOVEREIGNTY IN THE ‘INTERNATIONAL LAW OF COEXISTENCE’......Page 130
3. EQUALITY OF STATES......Page 134
4. SOVEREIGNTY SINCE 1945: THE CONCEPT OF ‘SOVEREIGN EQUALITY’......Page 138
5. ‘SOVEREIGN RIGHTS’ OF STATES UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY......Page 145
6. SOVEREIGN EQUALITY IN AN AGE OF GLOBALISATION......Page 153
7. THE UNTAMED SIDE OF SOVEREIGNTY......Page 155
1. INTRODUCTION: SOVEREIGNTY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW AND IN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES: TOWARDS CONVERGENCE?......Page 159
2. PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES FOR RECONCILING ‘INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY’, POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY, STATESOVEREIGNTY AND SOVEREIGN POWERS OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS......Page 161
3. THE EU: AN INTERNATIONAL DEMOCRACY BASED ON HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 164
4. RE-ALLOCATION OF SOVEREIGN RIGHTS IN THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS LAW OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE EU’S INEFFECTIVE FOREIGN POLICY CONSTITUTION......Page 166
5. EU PARTICIPATION AND COLLECTIVE EXERCISE OF SOVEREIGN RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS......Page 173
6. THE NEED FOR STRENGTHENING MULTI-LEVEL CONSTITUTIONALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS LAW OF THE EU......Page 175
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 181
2. POLITICAL AND LEGAL SOVEREIGNTY......Page 185
3. FROM SOVEREIGNTY TO POST-SOVEREIGNTY......Page 189
4. FROM PRE-SOVEREIGNTY TO MIXED SOVEREIGNTY......Page 194
5. CONCLUSION......Page 203
1. THE ELUSIVE CONCEPT OF SOVEREIGNTY......Page 205
2. THE WESTPHALIAN PARADIGM......Page 207
3. THE NATION-STATE......Page 209
4. CHALLENGES TO SOVEREIGNTY......Page 212
5. STATELESS NATIONS AND SHARED SOVEREIGNTY......Page 215
6. PLURINATIONAL DEMOCRACY AND THE FUTURE OF EUROPE......Page 219
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 223
2. THE SPECTRE OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE POLITICAL......Page 224
3. TRANSNATIONAL FLOWS AND THE POLITICAL......Page 231
4. TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS AND THE SPECTRE OF SOVEREIGNTY......Page 235
5. CONCLUSION......Page 240
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 243
2. SCHMITT’S THESIS: SOVEREIGNTY AS A SECULARISED THEOLOGICAL CONCEPT......Page 246
3. TOWARD AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOVEREIGNTY......Page 249
4. THE FIRST LAYER: ‘REX EST IMPERATOR’......Page 251
5. THE SECOND LAYER: MONOTHEISM......Page 254
6. THE FORMATION OF A COUNTERPOSITION: TRANSCENDENCE......Page 257
6. THE THIRD LAYER: THE INSCRUTABILITY OF GOD......Page 261
7. THE FOURTH LAYER: ‘IN REGNO SUO’ AND THE PARTICULARISATION OF GOD......Page 266
8. CONCLUSION: SOVEREIGNTY AS A CONCEPT OF CLOSURE......Page 269
Part B: Constitutional Perspectives I: The View from the States......Page 273
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 275
2. THE ROOTS OF FRENCH SOVEREIGNTY......Page 276
3. NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY V. POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY......Page 278
4. THE EXTERNAL DIMENSION OF SOVEREIGNTY......Page 282
5. THE END OF LEGO-CENTRISM AND THE LIMITS OF SOVEREIGNTY......Page 284
6. TRANSFERS OF SOVEREIGNTY V. SHARED EXERCISE OF COMPETENCIES......Page 287
7. TOWARDS SHARED SOVEREIGNTY......Page 290
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 293
2. SOVEREIGNTY AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY POST—1945......Page 296
3. POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY AND GERMAN NATIONHOOD......Page 299
4. THE CHALLENGE TO SOVEREIGNTY POSED BY EUROPEAN INTEGRATION......Page 303
5. SOVEREIGNTY AND THE FORMER GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC (GDR)......Page 311
6. CONCLUSION......Page 318
1. INTRODUCTION: THE ‘POLYSEMIC’ AND EVOLVING NATURE OF SOVEREIGNTY......Page 319
2. SOVEREIGNTY AND THE PEOPLE......Page 324
3. SOVEREIGNTY AND NORMS......Page 326
4. SOVEREIGNTY AND CONSTITUTIONAL VALUES......Page 329
5. SOVEREIGNTY AND COMPETENCES......Page 333
6. SOVEREIGNTY AND GLOBALISATION......Page 336
7. SUMMARY......Page 339
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 341
2. ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION......Page 342
3. CONCLUSIONS......Page 364
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 365
2. BELGIUM......Page 366
3. THE NETHERLANDS......Page 372
4. CONCLUSION: THE BENELUX AS A LABORATORY FOR POST-SOVEREIGNTY?......Page 378
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 381
2. SOVEREIGNTY IN PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW......Page 382
3. SOVEREIGNTY IN EUROPEAN UNION/COMMUNITY LAW......Page 398
4. SOVEREIGNTY IN POLISH CONSTITUTIONAL LAW......Page 407
5. POLAND’S SOVEREIGNTY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION......Page 411
6. CONCLUSION......Page 414
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 415
2. THE ‘SOUVERAINIST’ NATURE OF EASTERN EUROPEAN CONSTITUTIONS......Page 416
3. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE CANDIDATE COUNTRIES CONCERNING THE EU’S IMPACT ON SOVEREIGNTY......Page 423
4. CONCLUSION......Page 434
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 437
2. SOVEREIGNTY IN REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA......Page 439
3. SOVEREIGNTY VESTED IN THE PEOPLE OF THE NATION......Page 442
4. SOVEREIGNTY VESTED IN THE SEPARATE PEOPLES OF THE STATES......Page 446
5. SOVEREIGNTY VESTED IN THE COLLECTIVE PEOPLES OF THE STATES......Page 451
6. SOVEREIGNTY DIVIDED BETWEEN THE NATION AND THE STATES......Page 453
7. SOME COMPARISONS WITH EUROPE......Page 457
Part C: Constitutional Perspectives II: The View from Europe......Page 461
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 463
2. SUPREMACY OF EUROPEAN LAW AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE EC/EU......Page 464
3. SUPREMACY OF EUROPEAN LAW AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE MEMBER STATES......Page 469
4. CONCLUSION......Page 473
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 475
2. SOVEREIGNTY, BELONGING AND THE STATE......Page 479
3. GLOBAL, EUROPEAN AND REGIONAL CHALLENGES......Page 481
4. ELECTORAL RIGHTS AND THE EU INSTITUTIONS: CONCEPTION, COMPETENCE, COMPROMISE AND COMPLIANCE......Page 491
5. OPENING THE NATIONAL PANDORA’S BOXES: ELECTORAL RIGHTS IN NATIONAL POLITICAL DISCOURSE......Page 496
6. THE AREA OF FREEDOM, SECURITY AND JUSTICE: DEVELOPING THE EU’S WIDER ROLE IN RELATION TO MIGRANTS......Page 508
7. CONCLUSION: DEMOS CONSTRUCTION AND ‘POLITY IDEAS’......Page 512
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 515
2. THE QUESTION OF ULTIMATE AUTHORITY: TWO NARRATIVES......Page 516
3. THE IMPACT OF CONSTITUTIONAL PLURALISM ON THE NATURE OF THE EUROPEAN LEGAL ORDER......Page 525
4. SIX IMPLICATIONS OF EUROPE’S CONSTITUTIONAL PLURALISM......Page 531
5. THE NATURE OF THE EUROPEAN LEGAL ORDER: FROM PRACTICE TO THEORY......Page 534
6. THE PRINCIPLES OF CONTRAPUNCTUAL LAW......Page 538
7. THE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN CONSTITUTIONAL PLURALISM: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE......Page 545
Index......Page 553